Pauli's Principle says:
"The wavefunction of two identical fermions must be totally antisymmetric".
I know that, for a antisymmetric wavefunction,
$(-1)^L*(-1)^{S+1}*(-1)^{I+1}=-1$
"totally antisymmetric" means this relation or it means that these 3 relations:
$(-1)^L=-1$ and
$(-1)^{S+1}=-1$ and
$(-1)^{I+1}=-1$
must be verified simultaneusly?
Answer
It's the total product. The famous example is the spin of the deuteron. We have evidence that the two-nucleon isospin triplet with $I=1$ is unbound because we do not observe diprotons or dineutrons in nature, so we expect the deuteron to have isospin $I=0$. We know that the deuteron has positive parity, so we require $L$ even; by antisymmetry the deuteron must have spin $S=1$.
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