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Current Issue Vol. 18 No. 7 (2026): Additivity of Transition Energy and its Applications

  • Articles

    Additivity of Transition Energy and its Applications

    Linda Khachatryan, Boris S. Nahapetian
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    Abstract

    In this paper, we study the additivity property of the transition energy in a finite volume. In particular, we show how this property can be applied to solve the well-known problem of finding the conditions under which a given system of probability distributions parameterized by boundary conditions is a system of conditional probabilities for some finite random field (joint probability distribution).

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