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By analyzing the relationships among chance, weight of evidence and degree of beliefwe show that the assertion "probability functions are special cases of belief functions" and the assertion "Dempster's rule can be used to combine belief…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Pei Wang

A geometry-based density functional theory is presented for mixtures of hard spheres, hard needles and hard platelets; both the needles and the platelets are taken to be of vanishing thickness. Geometrical weight functions that are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ansgar Esztermann , Hendrik Reich , Matthias Schmidt

In the 1995 paper entitled "Noncommutative symmetric functions," Gelfand, et. al. defined two noncommutative symmetric function analogues for the power sum basis of the symmetric functions, along with analogues for the elementary and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Cristina Ballantine , Zajj Daugherty , Angela Hicks , Sarah Mason , Elizabeth Niese

We show that the main results of the expected utility and dual utility theories can be derived in a unified way from two fundamental mathematical ideas: the separation principle of convex analysis, and integral representations of continuous…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Darinka Dentcheva , Andrzej Ruszczynski

We discuss several aspects of the dielectric response theory application to the density functional theory. This field has been an unceasing source of confusion during several decades. The most frequent reasons for this confusion are (a)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 I. I. Mazin , R. E. Cohen

I summarize Density Functional Theory (DFT) in a language familiar to quantum field theorists, and introduce several apparently novel ideas for constructing {\it systematic} approximations for the density functional. I also note that, at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-11 T. Banks

In this paper some generalizations of the sum of powers of natural numbers is considered. In particular, the class of sums whose generating function is the power of the generating function for the classical sums of powers is studying. The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Svinin Andrei K

In this paper a small survey is presented on eighteen new functions and four new sequences, such as: Inferior/Superior f-Part, Fractional f-Part, Complementary function with respect with another function, S-Multiplicative, Primitive…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Florentin Smarandache

The higher-power derivative terms involved in both Faddeev and Skyrme energy functionals correspond to $\sigma_2$-energy, introduced by Eells and Sampson. The paper provides a detailed study of the first and second variation formulae…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Radu Slobodeanu

Estimating the coefficient functionals on various classes of holomorphic functions traditionally forms an important field of geometric complex analysis and its mathematical and physical applications. These coefficients reflect fundamental…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Samuel L. Krushkal

The expression of the free energy density of a classical crystalline system as a gradient expansion in terms of a set of order parameters is developed using classical density functional theory. The goal here is to extend and complete an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 James F. Lutsko

A recent paper (Phys. Rev A. 75, 022513 (2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0602020) challenges exact time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) on several grounds. We explain why these criticisms are either irrelevant or incorrect, and that TDDFT…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Neepa T. Maitra , Kieron Burke , Robert van Leeuwen

Extending G\"odel's \emph{Dialectica} interpretation, we provide a functional interpretation of classical theories of positive arithmetic inductive definitions, reducing them to theories of finite-type functionals defined using transfinite…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Jeremy Avigad , Henry Towsner

A Density Matrix Functional theory is constructed semi-empirically for the two-level Lipkin model. This theory, based on natural orbitals and occupation numbers, is shown to provide a good description for the ground state energy of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-21 Denis Lacroix

Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density functional theory (DFT) to nonequilibrium systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-29 Michael te Vrugt , Hartmut Löwen , Raphael Wittkowski

A new discrete distribution has been proposed as a discrete analogue of the two sided power distribution [Van Drop, J. R. and Kotz, S. (2002a). A novel extension of the triangular distribution and its parameter estimation, Journal of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Subrata Chakraborty , Dhrubajyoti Chakravarty

This paper provides a unifying view of a wide range of problems of interest in machine learning by framing them as the minimization of functionals defined on the space of probability measures. In particular, we show that generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Casey Chu , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

We investigate and exploit consequences of the recent neural metadensity functional theory [Kampa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301 (2025), 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.107301] for describing the physics of inhomogeneous fluids. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Stefanie M. Kampa , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

This paper presents a simple decidable logic of functional dependence LFD, based on an extension of classical propositional logic with dependence atoms plus dependence quantifiers treated as modalities, within the setting of generalized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alexandru Baltag , Johan van Benthem

We argue in favour of developing a comprehensive dynamical theory for rationalizing, predicting, designing, and machine learning nonequilibrium phenomena that occur in soft matter. To give guidance for navigating the theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Daniel de las Heras , Toni Zimmermann , Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt