Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience The variational method for density states a geometrical approach This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. Download details: IP Address: 130.56.64.29 This content was downloaded on 15/08/2017 at 14:10 Manuscript version: Accepted Manuscript Figueroa et al To cite this article before publication: Figueroa et al, 2017, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor, at press: https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa84ba This Accepted Manuscript is: © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd During the embargo period (the 12 month period from the publication of the Version of Record of this article), the Accepted Manuscript is fully protected by copyright and cannot be reused or reposted elsewhere. As the Version of Record of this article is going to be / has been published on a subscription basis, this Accepted Manuscript is available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence after the 12 month embargo period. After the embargo period, everyone is permitted to copy and redistribute this article for non-commercial purposes only, provided that they adhere to all the terms of the licence https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/3.0 Although reasonable endeavours have been taken to obtain all necessary permissions from third parties to include their copyrighted content within this article, their full citation and copyright line may not be present in this Accepted Manuscript version. Before using any content from this article, please refer to the Version of Record on IOPscience once published for full citation and copyright details, as permission will likely be required. All third party content is fully copyright protected, unless specifically stated otherwise in the figure caption in the Version of Record. When available, you can view the Version of Record for this article at: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8121/aa84ba