Physical Review A
Calculation of traces ofp-order replacement operators overN-electron spin-adapted spaces
Alicia Torre, Luis Laín, Judith Millán
Abstract
We present here a simple method for the direct evaluation of traces of p-order replacement operators (p-RO's) calculated in a finite-dimensional, antisymmetric, and spin-adapted N-electron space. The procedure is based on the reduction of the operator order together with a performance of the summations through Slater determinants. Very useful and general formulas, which can be applied to RO's of any order p\ensuremath{\le}N, are then derived.