A systematic method for solving the Faddeev equation for three bodies interacting through two-body local potentials is presented. This method is then applied to the problem of three identical particles interacting through a Yukawa potential, and the convergence of the method is studied numerically. Solutions are obtained for one particle scattering off a bound state of the other two, as well as for the three-particle bound-state case.

• Received 22 January 1968

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.169.1362