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Lower bounds to eigenvalues by the method of arbitrary choice without truncation

After a detailed discussion of the variation theorem for upper bound calculation of eigenvalues, many standard procedures for determining lower bounds to eigenvalues are presented with chemical applications in mind. A new lower bound method, arbitrary choice without trunctation is presented and tested on the helium atom. This method is attractive because it does not require knowledge of the eigenvalues or eigenvectors of the base problem. In application, however, it is shown that the method is disappointing for two reasons: 1) the method does not guarantee improved bounds as calculational effort is increased; and 2) the method requires some a priori information which, in general, may not be available. A possible direction for future work is pointed out in the end.

An extension of a lower bound method by Calogero and Marchioro has been developed and is presented in appendix G along with comments on the effective field method in appendix H for Virginia Tech access only. / Ph. D. / To avoid copyright infringements, access to these three appendices (G, H, and I) has been permanently limited to the Virginia Tech campus. In the case that Virginia Tech places these appendices freely on the internet, Virginia Tech is solely responsible for copyright violations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/79725
Date30 April 1999
CreatorsMarmorino, Matthew G.
ContributorsChemistry, Schug, John C., Heflin, James R., Marand, Hervé L., Beattie, Christopher A., Viers, Jimmy W.
PublisherVirginia Tech
Source SetsVirginia Tech Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation, Text
Formatapplication/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf
RightsIn Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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