Ornstein-Zernike relation from the grand canonical distribution function

Defining the local activity by $z(r)=z\exp[-\beta \psi (r)]$ where $\beta =1/k_{B}T$, and $k_{B}$ is the Boltzmann constant. Using those definitions the grand canonical partition function can be written as

$\Xi =\sum _{N}^{\infty }{1 \over N!}\int \dots \int \prod _{i}^{N}z(r_{i})\exp(-\beta U_{N})dr_{1}\dots dr_{N}$.

By functionally-differentiating $\Xi$ with respect to $z(r)$, and utilizing the mathematical theorem concerning the functional derivative,

${\delta z(r) \over {\delta z(r')}}=\delta (r-r')$,

we get the following equations with respect to the density pair correlation functions.

$\rho (r)={\delta \ln \Xi \over {\delta \ln z(r)}}$,

$\rho ^{(2)}(r,r')={\delta ^{2}\ln \Xi \over {\delta \ln z(r)\delta \ln z(r')}}$.

A relation between $\rho (r)$ and $\rho ^{(2)}(r,r')$ can be obtained after some manipulation as,

${\delta \rho ({\bf {r}}) \over {\delta \ln z({\bf {r'}})}}=\rho ^{(2)}({\bf {r,r'}})-\rho ({\bf {r}})\rho ({\bf {r'}})+\delta ({\bf {r}}-{\bf {r'}})\rho ({\bf {r}}).$

Now, we define the direct correlation function by an inverse relation of Eq. (\ref{deltarho}),

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Inserting Eqs. (\ref{deltarho}) and (\ref{deltalnz}) into the chain-rule theorem of functional derivatives,

$\int {\delta \rho ({\bf {r}}) \over {\delta \ln z({\bf {r}}^{\prime \prime })}}{\delta \ln z({\bf {r}}^{\prime \prime }) \over {\delta \rho ({\bf {r'}})}}{\rm {d}}{\bf {r}}^{\prime \prime }=\delta ({\bf {r}}-{\bf {r'}}),$

one obtains the Ornstein-Zernike relation. Thus the Ornstein-Zernike relation is, in a sense, a differential form of the partition function.