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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
We present first-principles local density functional calculations of the electronic structure and energetics of neutral and negatively charged fullerene molecules. We find thatthe negatively charged -1 state is stable relative to the neutral molecule and that the -2 state is stable relative to the neutral molecule but not to the -1 state of the molecule. We have also performed calculations of the electronic polarizabilities for different charged states and developed a simple model to estimate the dielectric constant of fullerene based crystals.