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6 9 9 1 c Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on the Equilibrium e D 6 1 of a Degenerate Gas of Nucleons and Electrons ] h c e 1 1, 2 1 m Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov and Chi Yang - t a 1 t Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C. s . t 2Department of Theoretical Physics, Physical Faculty, a m - Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia.∗ d n o c [ 1 Abstract v 3 4 1 We obtain the equations that define the equilibrium of a homogeneous relativistic 2 1 gas of neutrons, protons and electrons in a constant magnetic field as applied to the 6 9 conditions that probably occur near the center of neutron stars. We compute the / t a m relative densities of the particles at equilibrium and the Fermi momentum of electrons - d in the strong magnetic field as function of the density of neutrons and the magnetic n o c field induction. Novel features are revealed as to the ratio of the number of protons to : v i the number of neutrons at equilibrium in the presence of large magnetic fields. X r a ∗Permanent address. 1 Significant interest in the behaviors of relativistic electrons in a constant strong magnetic field was greatly stimulated by the discovery of giant magnetic fields at the surface of neutron stars [1, 2]. Observations of hard X-rays from pulsar Hercules X-1 allowed one to estimate the magnetic field induction at the pulsar surface to be of the order of 1013 G. Such