| 1. | Since each configuration is described by the sign-changes, the Partition function factorizes:
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| 2. | In analogy with statistical mechanics it is also called the partition function.
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| 3. | In either case, the partition function may be solved exactly using eigenanalysis.
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| 4. | This constrained entropy maximization, both classically and quantum mechanically, minimizes partition function.
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| 5. | In that context, the normalizing constant is called the partition function.
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| 6. | In terms of the vibrational wavenumbers we can write the partition function as
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| 7. | Another problem is that the partition function contains too many degrees of freedom.
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| 8. | A common, useful modification to the partition function is to introduce auxiliary functions.
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| 9. | This is particularly useful in calculating the partition function in quantum field theory.
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| 10. | Strictly speaking, though, this is the partition function for a statistical field theory.
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