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We analyze various approaches to construct exchange‐correlation functionals which are able to describe states of definite spin multiplicity in the density functional theory (DFT) realm and outline the characteristics of possible functionals consistent with the Kohn–Sham theory. To achieve this goal the unitary group technique is applied to label many‐electron states of definite total spin and to calculate...