“…Calculations employing the shell correction method (l09, 123, 124, 126, 197, 204--206, 324, 395, 396) and the HF method (72,74,147,148,297,(397)(398)(399) suggest an interpretation of experimental data in terms of welI deformed, elongated (prolate) shapes competing with fl attened (oblate) shapes and shell-model (spherical) confi gurations. The differences among various models are refl ected by their predictions concerning prolate-oblate energy differences and deformation energies, and the nature of shape-coexisting states.…”