Formulae are derived for traces of symmetry-adapted reduced density operators in a finite-dimensional, antisymmetric and spin-adapted space. The traces are expressed in terms of traces of products of the orbital occupation number operators.
In our previous studies with the evaluation of traces of p-order replacement operators calculated in finite-dimensional, antisymmetric, and spin-adapted N-electron spaces (p\ensuremath{\le}N), we described a technique for the calculation of those expressions based on the reduction of the opertor order [A. Torre, L. Lain, and J. Millan, Phys. Rev. A 47, 923 (1993)]. Now, we report a general formula which, condensing all the reduction steps, leads to the direct evaluation of those traces. Some examples for illuminating the usefulness of that formula are reported.
A formalism recently developed to obtain a matrix representation of the second-order spin-adapted reduced Hamiltonian [J. Karwowski, W. Duch, and C. Valdemoro, Phys. Rev. A 33, 2254 (1986)] and derived from the symmetric-group approach to configuration-interaction methods has been generalized to the case of the third-order spin-adapted reduced Hamiltonian. As in the second-order case, the matrix elements are linear combinations of generalized two-electron integrals with coefficients explicitly related to traces of products of the orbital occupation-number operators. The third-order spin-adapted reduced Hamiltonian matrix has been block diagonalized according to the irreducible representations of the symmetric group S3.