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This is a survey of the present state of the method of the generating functional which makes it possible to effectively study distributions of point random measures on a complete, separable metric space. The principal attention is devoted to the study of distributions of configurations of infinite systems of statistical physics — Gibbs distributions.
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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Teoriya Veroyatnostei, Matematicheskaya Statistika, Teoreticheskaya Kibernetika, Vol. 22, pp. 159–201, 1984.
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Nazin, G.I. Method of the generating functional. J Math Sci 31, 2859–2886 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02116603
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02116603