Error bars and quadratically convergent methods for the numerical simulation of the Hartree-Fock equations

SummaryThis paper presents an a posteriori error analysis of the discretization methods used in computational quantum chemistry on the Hartree- Fock equations. Upper and lower bounds for the energy are obtained from any discrete approximation strategy of the solution and the estimator proposed is shown to possess further approximation virtues.

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