Percus Yevick

If one defines a class of diagrams by the linear combination (Eq. 5.18 Ref.1) (See G. Stell in Ref. 2)

$\left.D(r)\right.=y(r)+c(r)-g(r)$

one has the exact integral equation

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle y(r_{12}) - D(r_{12}) = 1 + n \int (f(r_{13})y(r_{13})+D(r_{13})) h(r_{23})~dr_3}

The Percus-Yevick integral equation sets D(r)=0. Percus-Yevick (PY) proposed in 1958 Ref. 3

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The PY closure can be written as (Ref. 3 Eq. 61)

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or

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or (Eq. 10 in Ref. 4)

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or (Eq. 2 of Ref. 5)

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or in terms of the bridge function

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \left.B(r)\right.= \ln (1+\gamma(r) ) - \gamma(r)}

Note: the restriction Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle -1 < \gamma (r) \leq 1} arising from the logarithmic term Ref. 6. A critical look at the PY was undertaken by Zhou and Stell in Ref. 7.

References

1. [RPP_1965_28_0169]
2. [P_1963_29_0517_nolotengoElsevier]
3. [PR_1958_110_000001]
4. [MP_1983_49_1495]
5. [PRA_1984_30_000999]
6. [JCP_2002_116_08517]
7. [JSP_1988_52_1389_nolotengoSpringer]