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Comment on ‘‘Unified expression for Fermi and Bose distributions’’

Xian-Geng Zhao, Jixing Liu

Published Oct 1, 1993• 0 citations

Abstract

The incorrectness of the recently proposed expressions of the Dirac \ensuremath{\delta} function relating to both Fermi and Bose distributions by Chen [Phys. Rev. A 46, 3538 (1992)] is pointed out. The corresponding correct theorems are provided.

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.48.3187

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