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We calculate rigorously, in a suitable thermodynamic limit, the free energy of a system of nonrelativistic fermions which interact with attractiver −1-potentials. It is shown that the effective field approximation becomes exact in this limit and results in the temperature-dependent Thomas-Fermi equations.
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On leave of absence from the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Hertel, P., Thirring, W. Free energy of gravitating fermions. Commun.Math. Phys. 24, 22–36 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01907031
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01907031