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We look for conditions under which the van der Waals energy calculated by means of variationally determined polarizabilities according to the formula of Mavroyannis and Stephens, is an upper bound to the true energy. The conditions we find are quite restrictive.
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Saul T. Epstein (1965) studied this question.
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