Abstract
The generalized united‐atom view of molecules suggests that electronic states of symmetric molecules may be characterized by means of ``atomic'' quantum numbers. A test for the purity of the quantum number l in sσ states in H2+ is facilitated by the Tibbs‐Wannier theory of a Coulomb field with cutoff. Comparison shows that 96% of the ground‐state electronic energy is due to contributions of spherical functions.

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