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The 13 pages that link to Periodic boundary condition, each with the reason it gives.

• Boundary conditionsRelated: It models repeating domains and removes artificial edge differences.

• Molecular dynamicsRelated: Periodic images reduce artificial surface effects in bulk molecular simulations.

• Boundary value problemCompared with: It identifies boundary values across a domain rather than prescribing independent endpoint values.

• Cellular automatonBroader topic: Wrapping edges into a torus avoids special edge cells in many automata.

• Initial conditionCompared with: It identifies boundary values across a domain instead of fixing an initial value.

• Coordination numberRelated: Neighbor counting in a crystal or simulation must include particles across cell boundaries.

• Discrete Fourier transformRelated: The DFT’s frequency grid corresponds to treating its input block as one period of a repeating sequence.

• Dirichlet boundary conditionCompared with: It links values at distinct boundary points rather than assigning each independently.

• Finite cyclic groupRelated: Cyclic indexing models systems whose positions wrap around after a fixed number of steps.

• Flat torusRelated: They model functions on a flat torus using a lattice parallelogram.

• First-principles calculationRelated: They let a small crystal cell represent an extended solid.

• Crystallographic restriction theoremRelated: They model the periodicity that distinguishes crystals from structures without translational repetition.

• Wirtinger's inequalityRelated: Periodicity quantizes Fourier frequencies and fixes the inequality's constant.