Failure of Kohn–Sham ensemble representation

Claimed, not checked 1 paper September 25, 2026
What the paper claims, in its own words

Constructs a three-electron Coulomb molecule with two equal positive-integer-charge nuclei whose absolute ground-state density has no noninteracting ground-state ensemble representation by a single real spin-independent local potential in L3/2(R3)+L∞(R3)L^{3/2}(\mathbb R^3)+L^\infty(\mathbb R^3). This disproves Kohn–Sham ensemble representability for that potential class; the required nuclear charge is specified nonnumerically.

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