Resonating-group method for nuclear many-body problems

The resonating-group method is a microscopic method which uses fully antisymmetric wave functions, treats correctly the motion of the total center of mass, and takes cluster correlations into consideration. In this review, the authors discuss the formulation of this method for various nuclear many-body problems, and describe a complex-generator-coordinate technique which has been employed to evaluate matrix elements required in resonating-group calculations. Several illustrative examples of bound-state, scattering, and reaction calculations, which serve to demonstrate the usefulness of this method, are presented. Finally, by utilizing the results of these calculations, the authors discuss the role played by the Pauli principle in nuclear scattering and reaction processes. (Auth.)