| 41. | In general partition functions depend on a metric but the above examples are shown to be metric-independent.
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| 42. | The partition function can be related to thermodynamic properties because it has a very important statistical meaning.
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| 43. | As explained here, the average energy in a mode can be expressed in terms of the partition function:
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| 44. | However, in the end each contribution of a Feynman diagram to the partition function has the generic form
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| 45. | If the partition function has no special surface potential terms, this is the surface of a hard solid.
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| 46. | Technically, an anomalous symmetry in a quantum theory is a symmetry of the partition function as a whole.
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| 47. | See partition function for the case where the numbers in question are the energy levels of a physical system.
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| 48. | Here we note that is a typical infinitesimal phase space volume used in the calculation of a partition function.
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| 49. | The partition function in quantum field theory is a special case of the statistical partition function in statistical mechanics.
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| 50. | The partition function in quantum field theory is a special case of the statistical partition function in statistical mechanics.
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