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We consider a spinless particle coupled to a quantized Bose field and show that such a system has a ground state for two classes of short-range potentials which are alone too weak to have a zero-energy resonance.

We investigate a class of generalized Schrdinger operators in L²(³) with a singular interaction supported by a smooth curve . We find a strong-coupling asymptotic expansion of the discrete spectrum in the case when is a loop or an infinite bent curve which is asymptotically straight. It is given in terms of an auxiliary one-dimensional Schrdinger operator with a potential determined by the curvature of . In the same way, we obtain asymptotics of spectral bands for a periodic curve. In particular, the spectrum is shown to have open gaps in this case if is not a straight line and the singular interaction is strong enough.

Representations of the sl (n+ 1, C) Lie algebras are constructed with the help of canonical (boson) realisations of these algebras. For every weight Lambda on the standard Cartan subalgebra of sl (n+ 1, C) the authors obtain a representation rho Lambda (n+ 1)(called the maximal representation) which contains an irreducible subrepresentation with Lambda as the highest weight. It is shown that for a major part of the weights Lambda the representations rho Lambda (n+ 1) themselves are irreducible. The standard construction of the highest-weight representations of semi-simple Lie algebras is based on the so-called elementary representations; comparing with them, the authors maximal representations are given in the explicit form.

We consider an electron with an anomalous magnetic moment, <i>g</i> &gt; &gt; 2, confined to a plane and interacting with a nonhomogeneous magnetic field <i>B</i>, and investigate the corresponding Pauli Hamiltonian. We prove a lower bound on the number of bound states for the case when <i>B</i> is of a compact support and the related flux is <i>N</i> + <i></i>, <i></i>(0, 1]. In particular, there are at least <i>N</i> + 1 bound states if <i>B</i> does not change sign. We also consider the situation where the magnetic field is due to a localized rotationally symmetric electric current vortex in the plane. In this case the flux is zero; there is a pair of bound states for a weak coupling, and higher orbital-momentum spin-down states appearing as the current strength increases.