Revised Huang-Yang multipolar pseudopotential

Abstract

A number of authors have recently pointed out inconsistencies of results obtained with the Huang-Yang multipolar pseudo-potential for low-energy scattering [K. Huang and K. C. Yang, Phys. Rev. A, v 105, 767 (1957); later revised in K. Huang, ``Statistical Mechanics'', (Wiley, New York, 1963)]. The conceptual validity of their original derivation has been questioned. Here I show that these inconsistencies are rather due to an {\em algebraic} mistake made by Huang and Yang. With the corrected error, I present the revised version of the multipolar pseudo-potential.