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Polymer expansion is a useful tool in statistical mechanics and Euclidean field theory. Various examples of polymer systems including high and low temperature expansions of the Ising model, N-component field theory and lattice gauge field theory are presented. We discuss the concepts of Kirkwood-Salsburg equations, Moebius transform, cluster expansion formula of the free energy and thermodynamic limit.
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Pordt, A. (1998). Polymer expansion in particle physics. In: Meyer-Ortmanns, H., Klümper, A. (eds) Field Theoretical Tools for Polymer and Particle Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0106876
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