C Bhattacharyya and S Sathiya Keerthi 2000 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33 1307 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/33/7/301
C Bhattacharyya
and S Sathiya Keerthi![]()
An alternate derivation of Plefka's method is presented which is obtained from minimizing Gibbs energy. It is shown that this method can be rederived using a perturbation expansion of Kullback-Leibler divergence, the latter having a nice information geometric interpretation.
05.70.Ce Thermodynamic functions and equations of state
82B30 Statistical thermodynamics (See also 80-XX)
41A58 Series expansions (e.g. Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series)
Issue 7 (25 February 2000)
Received 2 August 1999
C Bhattacharyya and S Sathiya Keerthi 2000 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33 1307
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