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A possible interpretation of atomic valency as a spontaneously broken symmetry response
Author(s) -
Prat R. F.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.560240613
Subject(s) - valency , isotropy , interpretation (philosophy) , maxima and minima , basis (linear algebra) , symmetry (geometry) , physics , theoretical physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry , computer science , mathematical analysis , philosophy , linguistics , programming language
The concept of atomic valency is looked at as a specific response of an atomic system to an arbitrary environment. It is shown, on the basis of a mathematical result in group actions theory, how valency might be related both to previously found Hartree–Fock deformed states and to the isotropy groups (up to a conjugation) of the extrema of the electronic energy functional.
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