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The Initial Mass Function as the Equilibrium State of a Variational Process: why the IMF cannot be sampled stochastically

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Main Authors:	Gjergo, Eda, Zhang, Zhiyu, Kroupa, Pavel
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Classical Physics
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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