Mathematics Refresher

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-186
Author(s):  
Timothy E. Essington

The chapter “Mathematics Refresher” provides a brief reminder of operations with logarithms, matrices, and calculus, for student reference. It starts off by reviewing the differences between regular logarithms and natural logarithms and provides some examples of common operations with logarithms. It then introduces derivatives and integrals (although it is never necessary to compute an integral in this book, it is still useful to know what an integral is) and explains the sum rule, the product rule, the quotient rule, and the chain rule. Next, it provides a brief overview of matrices and matrix operations, including matrix dimensions, and addition and multiplication of matrices. It concludes with a discussion of the identity matrix.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Igor Stepanov*

The triple product rule, also known as the cyclic chain rule, cyclic relation, cyclical rule or Euler's chain rule, relates the partial derivatives of three interdependent variables, and often finds application in thermodynamics. It is shown here that its derivation is wrong, and that this rule is not correct; hence, the Mayer's relation and the heat capacity ratio, which describe the difference between isobaric and isochoric heat capacities, are also untrue. Also, the relationship linking thermal expansion and isothermal compressibility is wrong. These results are confirmed by many experiments and by the previous theoretical findings of the author.


Author(s):  
Igor Stepanov ◽  

The triple product rule, also known as the cyclic chain rule, cyclic relation, cyclical rule or Euler’s chain rule, relates the partial derivatives of three interdependent variables, and often finds application in thermodynamics. It is shown here that its derivation is wrong, and that this rule is not correct; hence, the Mayer’s relation and the heat capacity ratio, which describe the difference between isobaric and isochoric heat capacities, are also untrue. Also, the relationship linking thermal expansion and isothermal compressibility is wrong. These results are confirmed by many experiments and by the previous theoretical findings of the author.


2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 070305 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.P Toh ◽  
Hishamuddin Zainuddin
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2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelima Agarwal ◽  
Lorenzo Magnea ◽  
Sourav Pal ◽  
Anurag Tripathi

Abstract Correlators of Wilson-line operators in non-abelian gauge theories are known to exponentiate, and their logarithms can be organised in terms of collections of Feynman diagrams called webs. In [1] we introduced the concept of Cweb, or correlator web, which is a set of skeleton diagrams built with connected gluon correlators, and we computed the mixing matrices for all Cwebs connecting four or five Wilson lines at four loops. Here we complete the evaluation of four-loop mixing matrices, presenting the results for all Cwebs connecting two and three Wilson lines. We observe that the conjuctured column sum rule is obeyed by all the mixing matrices that appear at four-loops. We also show how low-dimensional mixing matrices can be uniquely determined from their known combinatorial properties, and provide some all-order results for selected classes of mixing matrices. Our results complete the required colour building blocks for the calculation of the soft anomalous dimension matrix at four-loop order.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toufik Baroudi ◽  
Rachid Seghir ◽  
Vincent Loechner

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