Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, Jakob Yngvason
The Ground State Energy and Density of Interacting Bosons in a Trap
(28K, LaTex)

ABSTRACT.  In the theoretical description of recent experiments with dilute Bose 
gases confined in external potentials the Gross-Pitaevskii equation 
plays an important role. Its status as an approximation for the 
quantum mechanical many-body ground state problem has recently been 
rigorously clarified. A summary of this work is presented here.