Partition functions and symmetric polynomials

DOI10.1119/1.1412643MaRDI QIDQ3088700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt, J. Schnack

Publication date 19 August 2011

Published in American Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104293

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Abstract: We find a close correspondence between certain partition functions of ideal quantum gases and certain symmetric polynomials. Due to this correspondence it can be shown that a number of thermodynamic identities which have recently been considered are essentially of combinatorical origin and known for a long time as theorems on symmetric polynomials. For example, a recurrence relation for partition functions appearing in the textbook of P. Landsberg is nothing else but Newton's identity in disguised form. Conversely, a certain theorem on symmetric polynomials translates into a new and unexpected relation between fermionic and bosonic partition functions, which can be used to express the former by means of the latter and vice versa.

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