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Nonexistence of Large Nuclei in the Liquid Drop Model

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Abstract

We give a simplified proof of the nonexistence of large nuclei in the liquid drop model and provide an explicit bound. Our bound is within a factor of 2.3 of the conjectured value and seems to be the first quantitative result.

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© 2016 Springer International Publishing. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Received: 18 April 2016; Revised: 7 May 2016; Accepted: 9 May 2016. Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Phan Thành Nam would like to thank H. Van Den Bosch for helpful discussions. Partial support by US National Science Foundation DMS-1363432 (R.L.F.), DMS-1265868 (R.K.) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Project Nr. P 27533-N27 (P.T.N.) are acknowledged.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03231 (URL)

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Institute of Science and Technology Austria
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DMS-1363432
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DMS-1265868
FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
P 27533-N27

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