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Symmetric Potentials Beget Symmetric Ground States

Mathematical Physics 2016-11-08 v1 Analysis of PDEs Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

Using an unusual type of symmetric average, we show that for several common equations involving quite general potentials possessing symmetry, the ground state, if it exists, must also be symmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01813,
  title  = {Symmetric Potentials Beget Symmetric Ground States},
  author = {Richard Chapling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01813},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages