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Physical Review A

Generalized virial theorem for compact problems

J. Abad, J. G. Esteve

Published Oct 1, 1991• 8 citations
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Abstract

We derive the virial theorem for Hamiltonians whose domain of definition is not invariant under spatial dilatations. This generalization is important for problems where the support space is noncompact.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.44.4728

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