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The virial expansion of ideal quantum gases reveals some interesting and amusing properties when considered as a function of dimensionality $d$. In particular, the convergence radius $\rho_c(d)$ of the expansion is particulary large at {\em…
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We present a simple and efficient acceleration technique for an arbitrary method for computing the Euclidean projection of a point onto a convex polytope, defined as the convex hull of a finite number of points, in the case when the number…
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