A proof of Scott's correction for matter (Q2577635)

The paper describes the kind of strengthening of {Stability of Matter}, which tries to obtain the right dependance of the total energy in the physical parameters. The strengthening in particular shows that Thomas-Fermi theory, which is already known to give the leading order contribution to the energy of matter, if supplemented with the so-called Scott correction is correct uniformly in the number of nuclei. New more precise estimates of the volume of matter also presented. The discussed strengthening is also related to the remarkable fact that experimentally one finds that mean nuclear spacing in nearly independent of the kind of atoms that matter is made from.