The longstanding disagreement between the predictions of Faddeev and variational calculations on the existence of the trineutron is shown to arise from the potentials used and is not attributable to the difference in approach.

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE ${}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}n$; confirmed nonexistence. Faddeev-UPE method.

• Received 13 September 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.19.2063