Characteristic function

Characteristic function stands for:

• Characteristic function , a mathematical function that only takes the values ​​0 and 1, see indicator function
• Characteristic function (stochastics) , in stochastics a kind of Fourier transform of a random variable
• Characteristic function (physics) , in physics the total differential of a thermodynamic potential

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.