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The cluster expansion formalism used in materials science is reconstructed on an axiomatic basis with the aims of clarifying underlying concepts and improving computational procedures, and without using conventional cluster functions.…
A generalized version of Groeneveld's convergence criterion for the virial expansion and generating functionals for weighted $2$-connected graphs is proven. The criterion works for inhomogeneous systems and yields bounds for the density…