Singular and nonsingular three-body integrals for exponential wave functions

Frank E Harris1, Alexei M Frolov, Vedene H Smith

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. harris@qtp.ufl.edu

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