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A Lower Bound on the Partition Function for a Strictly Neutral Charge-Symmetric System

Mathematical Physics 2019-11-26 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP

Abstract

A lower bound on the grand partition function of a classical charge-symmetric system is adapted to the neutral grand canonical ensemble, in which the system is constrained to have zero total charge. This constraint permits us to consider two-body potentials that are only conditionally positive definite.

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@article{arxiv.1904.11013,
  title  = {A Lower Bound on the Partition Function for a Strictly Neutral Charge-Symmetric System},
  author = {Jeffrey P. Thompson and Isaac C. Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11013},
  year   = {2019}
}
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