08-61 Christian Hainzl, Benjamin Schlein

Stellar Collapse in the Time Dependent Hartree-Fock Approximation (42K, LateX) Mar 25, 08

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Abstract. We prove blow-up in finite time for radially symmetric solutions to the pseudo-relativistic Hartree-Fock equation with negative energy. The non-linear Hartree-Fock equation is commonly used in the physics literature to describe the dynamics of white dwarfs. We extend thereby recent results by Froehlich and Lenzmann, who established in [3,4] blow-up for solutions to the pseudo-relativistic Hartree equation. As key ingredient for handling the exchange term we use the conservation of the expectation of the square of the angular momentum operator.

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