{ "id": "1605.02949", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-05-10T11:34:10.000Z", "updated": "2016-05-10T11:34:10.000Z", "title": "The absence of the ground state for Coulomb systems with the critical charge", "authors": [ "Yukimi Goto" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We consider a N-particles Schr\\\"odinger operator with Coulomb interaction with K static nuclei. Let Z_c denote the maximal value of the total nuclear charge that one can remove the excess particles from a molecule without changing the energy. We prove that the system with the critical charge Z_c has no ground state if Z_c = N - 1.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-05-10T11:34:10.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "ground state", "critical charge", "coulomb systems", "total nuclear charge", "coulomb interaction" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }