Functional approach to the theory of two-dimensional quantum Fermi systems in an external periodic field

The behavior of an adsorbed layer of Fermi particles in a weak external field with symmetry of the centered quadratic lattice is investigated. Instability of the weakly inhomogeneous state of the system with respect to small fluctuations in the vicinity ofa^*=2k_F is established; herea^* is the magnitude of the vectors of the neighbors closest to the point in the inverse lattice; k_F is the Fermi momentum.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 169, pp. 29–43, 1988.It remains to thank V. N. Popov for constant interest in the work.