This Communication presents a unified derivation of three different approximations used in density functional theory (DFT): the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction (PZSIC), the Hubbard correction DFT+U, and the Rung 3.5 density functionals. All three approximations can be derived by introducing electron self-interaction into the Kohn-Sham (KS) reference system of noninteracting electrons. The derivation uses the Adiabatic Projection formalism: one projects the electron-electron interaction operator onto certain states, introduces the projected operator into the reference system, and defines a density functional for the remainder. Projecting onto individual localized KS orbitals recovers our previous derivation of the PZSIC [B. G. Janesko, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 5698-5702 (2022)]. Projecting onto localized atom-centered orbitals recovers a variant of DFT+U. Projecting onto localized states at each point in space recovers Rung 3.5 approaches. New results include an "atomic state PZSIC" that does not require localizing the KS orbitals, a demonstration that typical Hubbard U parameters reproduce a scaled-down PZSIC, and a Rung 3.5 variant of DFT+U that does not require choosing atom-dependent states.
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