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On Buckingham's $\Pi$-Theorem

Mathematical Physics 2019-12-19 v1 Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

Roughly speaking, Buckingham's Π\Pi-Theorem provides a method to "guess" the structure of physical formulas simply by studying the dimensions (the physical units) of the involved quantities. Here we will prove a quantitative version of Buckingham's Theorem, which is "purely mathematical" in the sense that it does make any explicit reference to physical units.

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@article{arxiv.1912.08744,
  title  = {On Buckingham's $\Pi$-Theorem},
  author = {Jan-David Hardtke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08744},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages

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