• mathematics and mathematical physics, potential theory is the study of harmonic functions. The term "potential theory" was coined in 19th-century physics...
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  • chemistry, the Polanyi potential theory, also called Polanyi's potential theory of adsorption or Eucken–Polanyi potential theory, is a model of adsorption...
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  • Mixed potential theory is a theory used in electrochemistry that relates the potentials and currents from differing constituents into a 'weighted' potential...
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    A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical singular, all-encompassing, coherent...
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    incompressible flow the velocity potential satisfies Laplace's equation, and potential theory is applicable. However, potential flows also have been used to...
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  • Mathematically, the gravitational potential is also known as the Newtonian potential and is fundamental in the study of potential theory. It may also be used for...
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  • A classical field theory is a physical theory that predicts how one or more fields in physics interact with matter through field equations, without considering...
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    electrodynamics is an abelian gauge theory with the symmetry group U(1) and has one gauge field, the electromagnetic four-potential, with the photon being the...
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  • Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability. The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate...
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  • applies to vector potentials, and is exploited in classical field theory and also gauge field theory. Absolute values of potentials are not physically...
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  • enough at infinity. As such, it is a fundamental object of study in potential theory. In its general nature, it is a singular integral operator, defined...
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  • electrostatic potential and a magnetic vector potential The class of functions known as harmonic functions, which are the topic of study in potential theory The...
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    to calculate reaction rate constants in the transition state theory in 1935. Potential energy surfaces are commonly shown as three-dimensional graphs...
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  • } Bessel potential Fractional integration Sobolev space Samko 1998, section II. Landkof, N. S. (1972), Foundations of modern potential theory, Berlin,...
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  • mathematics. Because string theory potentially provides a unified description of gravity and particle physics, it is a candidate for a theory of everything, a self-contained...
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  • potential (also called a screened Coulomb potential[citation needed]) is a potential named after the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa. The potential is...
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  • In potential theory, an area of mathematics, a double layer potential is a solution of Laplace's equation corresponding to the electrostatic or magnetic...
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  • theory — Perturbation theoryPotential theory — Probability theory — Ramsey theory — Rational choice theory — Representation theory — Ring theory —...
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  • the uniform convergence of formal series to the general settings of potential theory. In addition, insight and clarity is obtained by generalizations to...
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    tidal potential, the dynamic theory of tides, developed by Laplace in 1775, describes the ocean's real reaction to tidal forces. Laplace's theory of ocean...
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  • Brownian motion and classical potential theory. Academic Press. p. 29. Titchmarsh, E. (1948). Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals (2nd ed.)...
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    probability theory, especially martingale theory. In writing this book, Doob shows that his two favorite subjects, martingales and potential theory, can be...
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  • In mathematics, in the field of potential theory, the fine topology is a natural topology for setting the study of subharmonic functions. In the earliest...
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    the 1950s, connecting Markov processes and potential theory, which had a significant effect on the theory of Lévy processes and led to more interest in...
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  • (1961). "Theory of Bessel potentials I". Ann. Inst. Fourier. 11: 385–475. doi:10.5802/aif.116. Duduchava, R. (2001) [1994], "Bessel potential operator"...
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    knowledge of physics using only mathematics from multivariable calculus, potential theory and partial differential equations (PDEs). For example, scalar PDEs...
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    to the zeta potential by inputting the dispersant viscosity and dielectric permittivity, and the application of the Smoluchowski theories. Electrophoretic...
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  • In potential theory, a branch of mathematics, Cartan's lemma, named after Henri Cartan, is a bound on the measure and complexity of the set on which a...
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    importance in mathematical astronomy. In his first publication on potential theory, the "Theoria attractionis..." (1813), Gauss provided a closed-form...
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  • potential V(r, r′). (All the eigenvalues of n(r, r′) are 1.) In other words, it ends up with a theory similar to the Hartree–Fock (or hybrid) theory....
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