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There are many problems in statistical mechanics and field theory where systems of interacting particles (or particle-like defects, contours, molecules, clusters, etc.) arise. Understanding these systems would be simpler if the particles were noninteracting. If the particles are dilute and weakly interacting, then the corrections to the independent particle approximation are small. These can be isolated and regarded as new kinds of (nonlocal) particles by a procedure known as the Mayer expansion. The nonlocal particles (or clusters) carry all the information about the long-distance behavior of the system.
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Imbrie, J.Z. (1983). Iterated Mayer Expansions and Their Application to Coulomb Gases. In: Fröhlich, J. (eds) Scaling and Self-Similarity in Physics. Progress in Physics, vol 7. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6762-6_4
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