Characteristic operators and unitarily invariant decomposition of hermitian operators
Auchin Tang, Hong Guo
Abstract A set of characteristic operators {F } is proposed for performing the decomposition of p‐particle Hermitian operators {Dp} to constitute irreducible components {D } of the unitary group D = F Dp, q = 0,1,2,…,p. For a deeper expolration of the properties of the characteristic operators, a few theorems are presented. As an illustration, the expected values for symmetric p‐particle Hermitian operators are obtained as a number of terms having invariant group‐theoretical meaning.
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry•Jan 1, 1983•38 citations