partition function
English
Noun
partition function (plural partition functions)
- (mathematics) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
- (number theory) function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number.
- (quantum field theory) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
- (statistical mechanics) function that is the generating function of the correlation function
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Einstein partition function
References
partition function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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