Title: The method of collective variables: a link with the density functional theory
Author(s):

	O. Patsahan (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsistski Str., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine) ,
	I. Mryglod (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsistski Str., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine)

Recently, based on the method of collective variables the statistical field theory for multicomponent inhomogeneous systems was formulated [O. Patsahan, I. Mryglod, J.-M. Caillol, Journal of Physical Studies, 2007, 11, 133]. In this letter we establish a link between this approach and the classical density functional theory for inhomogeneous fluids.

Key words: functional methods of statistical physics, method of collective variables, density functional theory, multicomponent inhomogeneous system
PACS: 05.20.Jj, 02.30.Sa

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