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We report on an original method, due to Majorana, leading to a semi-analytical series solution of the Thomas-Fermi equation, with appropriate boundary conditions, in terms of only one quadrature. We also deduce a general formula for such a…
We show that a simple and straightforward rational approximation to the Thomas--Fermi equation provides the slope at origin with unprecedented accuracy. We compare present approach with other available ones.
Majorana found a way to exploit the scaling properties of the Thomas-Fermi equation for converting this second-order differential equation into one of first order. We explore his method for the familiar neutral-atom solution and extend it…
We present a method for reducing the order of ordinary differential equations satisfying a given scaling relation (Majorana scale-invariant equations). We also develop a variant of this method, aimed to reduce the degree of non-linearity of…
The Majorana transformation makes it possible to reduce the Thomas-Fermi equation to a first-order differential equation. This reduction is possible due to the special scaling property of the Thomas-Fermi equation under homology…
The Thomas - Fermi equation describing the screening of the Coulomb potential inside heavy neutral atoms is reconsidered. An accurate representation for its numerical solution was obtained by means of the variational principle. The proposed…
We obtain highly accurate solutions to the Thomas-Fermi equations for atoms and atoms in very strong magnetic fields. We apply the Pad\'e-Hankel method, numerical integration, power series with Pad\'e and Hermite-Pad\'e approximants and…
Given the Thomas-Fermi equation sqrt(x)phi''=phi*(3/2), this paper changes first the dependent variable by defining y(x)=sqrt(x phi(x)). The boundary conditions require that y(x) must vanish at the origin as sqrt(x), whereas it has a…
The explicit analytic solution of the Thomas Fermi equation thorough a new kind of analytic technique, namely the homotopy analysis method, was employed by Liao (Appl. Math. Comp. 144, (2003)). However, the base functions and the auxiliary…
It is well known that the ultra-relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation, amply adopted in the study of heavy nuclei, admits an exact solution for a constant proton distribution within a spherical core of radius Rc. Here exact solutions of a…
We construct two rational approximate solutions to the Thomas-Fermi (TF) nonlinear differential equation. These expressions follow from an application of the principle of dynamic consistency. In addition to examining differences in the…
We comment on a recent paper announcing the discovery of a previously unknown publication of Ettore Majorana on the Thomas-Fermi atomic model. In pointing out that such a publication was not written by Majorana, we correct some…
We present a class of explicit solutions for the problem of minimization of the function $f(x,y,z)=\sum_{i=1}^{4}\sqrt{(x-x_{i})^2+(y-y_{i})^2+(z-z_{i})^2},$ which gives the location of the unique stationary (Fermat-Torricelli) point for…
In the centennial of Ettore Majorana's birth (1906-1938?), we re-examine some aspects of his fundamental scientific production in atomic and molecular physics, including a not well known short communication. There, Majorana critically…
In this paper, we propose Hermite collocation method for solving Thomas-Fermi equation that is nonlinear ordinary differential equation on semi-infinite interval. This method reduces the solution of this problem to the solution of a system…
In this work we consider the primal mixed variational formulation of the Poisson equation with a line source. The analysis and approximation of this problem is non-standard as the line source causes the solutions to be singular. We start by…
We improve on the Thomas-Fermi approximation for the single-particle density of fermions by introducing inhomogeneity corrections. Rather than invoking a gradient expansion, we relate the density to the unitary evolution operator for the…
New exact solution of the cylindrically symmetric Einstein-Maxwell equations is presented. The solution is singular on the axis of symmetry and at the radial infinity, where sources should be placed. The accepted source at the origin can be…
A set of equations is developed to describe a curve in space given the curvature $\kappa$ and the angle of rotation $\theta$ of the osculating plane. The set of equations has a solution (in terms of $\kappa$ and $\theta$) that indirectly…
We examine the linear convergence rates of variants of the proximal point method for finding zeros of maximal monotone operators. We begin by showing how metric subregularity is sufficient for linear convergence to a zero of a maximal…