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Bound States in n Dimensions (Especially n = 1 and n = 2)

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We stress that in contradiction with what happens in space dimensions n3n \geq 3, there is no strict bound on the number of bound states with the same structure as the semi-classical estimate for large coupling constant and give, in two dimensions, examples of weak potentials with one or infinitely many bound states. We derive bounds for one and two dimensions which have the "right" coupling constant behaviour for large coupling.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0112021,
  title  = {Bound States in n Dimensions (Especially n = 1 and n = 2)},
  author = {N. N. Khuri and A. Martin and T. T. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0112021},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk given by A. Martin at Les Houches, October 2001, to appear in "Few-Body Problems"