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 theory — Potential 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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Pierre-Simon Laplace (redirect from Analytical Theory of Probabilities)
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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Pi (section Cauchy distribution and potential theory)
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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Stochastic process (redirect from Theory of random functions)
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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Field (physics) (redirect from Field theory (physics))
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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Carl Friedrich Gauss (section Potential theory)
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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