%0 Journal Article %J Rev. Math. Phys. 24 (2012), 1250017 %D 2012 %T Stability for a System of N Fermions Plus a Different Particle with Zero-Range Interactions %A Michele Correggi %A Gianfausto Dell'Antonio %A Domenico Finco %A Alessandro Michelangeli %A Alessandro Teta %X We study the stability problem for a non-relativistic quantum system in\\r\\ndimension three composed by $ N \\\\geq 2 $ identical fermions, with unit mass,\\r\\ninteracting with a different particle, with mass $ m $, via a zero-range\\r\\ninteraction of strength $ \\\\alpha \\\\in \\\\R $. We construct the corresponding\\r\\nrenormalised quadratic (or energy) form $ \\\\form $ and the so-called\\r\\nSkornyakov-Ter-Martirosyan symmetric extension $ H_{\\\\alpha} $, which is the\\r\\nnatural candidate as Hamiltonian of the system. We find a value of the mass $\\r\\nm^*(N) $ such that for $ m > m^*(N)$ the form $ \\\\form $ is closed and bounded from below. As a consequence, $ \\\\form $ defines a unique self-adjoint and bounded from below extension of $ H_{\\\\alpha}$ and therefore the system is stable. On the other hand, we also show that the form $ \\\\form $ is unbounded from below for $ m < m^*(2)$. In analogy with the well-known bosonic case, this suggests that the system is unstable for $ m < m^*(2)$ and the so-called Thomas effect occurs. %B Rev. Math. Phys. 24 (2012), 1250017 %I World Scientific %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6069 %1 5955 %2 Mathematics %3 Mathematical Physics %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2012-08-02T07:19:59Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n1201.5740v1.pdf: 303047 bytes, checksum: eb2df0afd547514c235422e82f494584 (MD5) %R 10.1142/S0129055X12500171