Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 58, Nos. 5/6, 1990. p. 1165-1180.
We study various consequences of crystalline ordering in one-component (ordinary and surface) plasmas of arbitrary dimension, especially its relation to the poor decay of the pair correlation function. We considerably improve and presumably optimize the various known bounds on its decay at infinity and scrutinize the usual arguments claiming absence of crystallization in two-dimensional plasmas.