Ornstein-Zernike relation from the grand canonical distribution function
Defining the local activity by
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where , and is the Boltzmann constant. Using those definitions the grand canonical partition function can be written as
- .
By functionally-differentiating with respect to , and utilizing the mathematical theorem concerning the functional derivative,
- ,
we get the following equations with respect to the density pair correlation functions.
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A relation between Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Cannot get mml. Server problem."): {\displaystyle \rho (r)}
and can be obtained after some manipulation as,
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Now, we define the direct correlation function by an inverse relation of the previous equation,
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Inserting these two reults into the chain-rule theorem of functional derivatives,
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one obtains the Ornstein-Zernike relation.
Thus the Ornstein-Zernike relation is,
in a sense, a differential form of the partition function.