## Abstract It is shown that the Löwdin orthogonalization gives the unique minimum for the functional ϕ measuring the least squares distance between the given orbitals and the orthogonalized orbitals. Furthermore a much stronger result is obtained, namely that ϕ has only one local minimum, which is
On several alternatives for Löwdin orthogonalization
✍ Scribed by Szczepanik, D.; Mrozek, J.
- Book ID
- 120461194
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Volume
- 1008
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 2210-271X
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