Abstract:
A study is made of a superconductor in which the topology of the Fermi surface changes
under the influence of pressure and a paramagnetic impurity; equations are obtained for
the ordering parameter $\Delta$ and the critical temperature $T_c$. It is found that $T_c$ increases
nonlinearly with the parameter $\varepsilon'_F=\varepsilon_F-\varepsilon_k$ at different impurity concentrations for the case
when a new part of the Fermi surface appears and that it decreases nonlinearly for the case
when an open Fermi surface becomes closed. An increase in the impurity concentration
smoothes the nonlinearity to some extent. The impurity contribution to $T_c$ associated with
a change in the topology of the Fermi surface is important. A study is also made of the
change of the critical impurity concentration with increasing $\varepsilon'_F$.
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