Restoration of overlap functions and spectroscopic factors in nuclei.

An asymptotic restoration procedure is applied for analyzing bound-state overlap functions, separation energies, and single-nucleon spectroscopic factors by means of a model one-body density matrix emerging from the Jastrow correlation method in its lowest order approximation for {sup 16}O and {sup 40}Ca nuclei. Comparison is made with available experimental data and mean-field and natural orbital representation results. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}