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Ground radial probability and units
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (), The Axiom of Choice). Let , let on be as above, and put . Define Then:
(a) , , and ;
(b) for every Borel set , writing for Lebesgue measure, so the radial probability density is a probability density on : and ;
(c) the mean of is , and the unique maximum (mode) of is at ;
(d) the spatial density is strictly decreasing in and maximal at . For every there is a remainder such that
Thus this probability is positive and tends to as , and the spatial probability measure has no point atoms, including at the density maximum ;
(e) parametrisation and dimensions. If and , then and the operator
has eigenvalues (); under the dimensional conventions , , , the constants and have the dimensions of and respectively.
Clauses (a)–(d) are mathematical statements about the normalised ground vector and its distribution; clause (e) is a dimensional-consistency statement about the parametrisation and is not a physical claim, measurement or identification of any quantity with nature.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , , the operator and its eigenfunctions as in the previous items of this page.
The regular solution at , is, up to a nonzero scalar, , and with transported function ; the eigenvalue site is exactly the ground level of ; moreover the negative eigenvalues of are exactly , , with -dimensional eigenspaces spanned by the transported regular solutions (Kummer recurrence and termination (d), (e), Laguerre bound energy exhaustion (b), (c), Transported radial endpoint realization (e), Negative-subspace completeness and degeneracy (a)). Nonnegative radial eigenvalues are excluded by Coulomb continuum spectral density (d); the exact block-domain identity then excludes nonnegative eigenvalues of as well.
and ; the polar decomposition of Lebesgue measure holds (Sphere ONB, Sphere integrals in angle coordinates, Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma).
For and one has ; this follows by induction from the derivative of and the fundamental theorem, the boundary terms at and vanishing (The second fundamental theorem: if is differentiable on with and is integrable, then , The exponential function is smooth and , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when ).
The norm of a Borel function is computed by the polar decomposition, and (The space as the quotient by null functions, Complex Lp classes and Euclidean test-function conventions, Hilbert space).
Proof
[The normalized ground vector] By [F1] the ground eigenfunction of is and the corresponding -eigenvector is , up to the scalar . By [F4] and [F2], by [F3]; hence the normalized ground vector is , since and . By [F1] it lies in and . This is (a).
[The radial law] For a Borel set , [F2] and [F4] give , which is the displayed identity of (b); the factor enters only when the angular indicator is identically one, giving the radial marginal; the density is nonnegative and integrates to by the value of the integral computed in step 1.1.
[Mean and mode] By [F3] together with [F2], because . For the mode, differentiate using [F3]'s ingredients: , which is positive for , zero at and negative for ; hence , and with it , has its unique maximum at . This is (c).
[Density versus point probability] Set . Step 2.1 gives by differentiation and the fundamental theorem. Since , the difference from has absolute value at most . Taking gives the exact remainder bound in (d), with the dimensionless scale ; the probability is strictly positive for every and tends to zero. The density is strictly decreasing in , while every singleton has zero probability because its Lebesgue measure is zero. This proves (d), with no point atom at the density maximum.
[Parametrisation and dimensions] Setting gives , and the operator identity on holds because ; hence the eigenvalues of are by [F1], including exclusion of every nonnegative eigenvalue. For the dimensional statement, substituting the dimensional conventions and the dependent unit identity , one computes , so has dimension , and . This is (e).
[Conclusion] Clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) are steps 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2 and 4.1.
Depends on
Coulomb continuum spectral density
Negative-subspace completeness and degeneracy
Laguerre bound energy exhaustion
Kummer recurrence and termination
Transported radial endpoint realization
Angular radial unitary reduction
Sphere ONB
Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma
Sphere integrals in angle coordinates
The second fundamental theorem: if is differentiable on with and is integrable, then
The exponential function is smooth and
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for
The space as the quotient by null functions
Complex Lp classes and Euclidean test-function conventions
Hilbert space
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
The Axiom of Choice
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- G. Teschl, Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics, 1st edition 2009, Section 10.4 pp. 229-235 (lowest Coulomb eigenvalue, simplicity and ground-state formula; angular normalization is proved locally)
- J. Binney and D. Skinner, The Physics of Quantum Mechanics (Cappella Archive), Section 8.1 pp. 186-193 (radial wavefunctions and radial probability densities of hydrogen, and the expectation values for powers of r)