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The Fredholm Solution as the Limit for a Sum of Separable Potentials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. B. Fairlie
Affiliation:
Pembroke CollegeCambridge

Abstract

The scattering amplitude for a potential expressible as a sum of n separable potentials is obtained as the solution of a set of n simultaneous linear equations. As n→∞ the Fredholm solution for the integral form of the Schrödinger equation is recovered.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1960

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