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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Traces of products of angular momentum operators in the spherical basis

H. E. De Meyer, Guido Vanden Berghe

Published Mar 1, 1978• 8 citations
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Abstract

Analytic expressions are derived for the traces of products of angular momentum operators in the spherical basis. These expressions contain binomial coefficients and Stirling numbers of the second kind. In addition, some relations between Bernouilli polynomials and Stirling numbers are retrieved.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/11/3/009

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