Abstract The relationship between well known necessary conditions for N‐representability of the reduced two‐density matrix is investigated. It is shown that the G‐condition implies two conditions of the operator endomorphism type: the C‐ and the B‐condition.
Given the set 𝒮N of all operator endomorphisms T with the property that whenever D is any 2-density operator, then T (D) is N-representable is considered. We specify a pair {Q2,PN} of extreme points of 𝒮N which are related to each other via the particle-hole duality (Theorem 1.2). The rest of the paper is devoted to a complete characterization of the set ŜN of all operator endomorphisms T with the property that whenever D is any 2-density operator then T (D) is quasi-N-representable, i.e., satisfies the necessary conditions Id, QN, BN, and CN.
Properties and N-representability conditions of the two-body density matrix
A summary is presented of the properties of the coefficient matrices formed by expanding the two-body reduced density matrix in a complete set of two-electron wave functions. Calculating the relationship between the many electron wave function and these so-called two-body density matrices enables the derivation of necessary N-representability conditions that ensure a given matrix obeys the postulates of many-body quantum mechanics.