partition function

English

Noun

partition function (plural partition functions)

1. (mathematics) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
2. (number theory) function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number.
3. (quantum field theory) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
4. (statistical mechanics) function $Z[J]$ that is the generating function of the correlation function

Hypernyms

• function

Hyponyms

• Einstein partition function

References

• partition function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia