Spherical Subspace Potential Functional Theory

Abstract

The recently introduced version of the density functional theory that employs a set of spherically symmetric densities instead of the density has a ‘set-representability problem’. It is not known if a density exists for a given set of the spherically symmetric densities. This problem can be eliminated if potentials are applied instead of densities as basic variables. Now, the spherical subspace potential functional theory is established.

Keywords

• density functional theory
• potential functional theory
• subspace spherical densities