Expansion of a Function of Noncommuting Operators

1 December 1965

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics

Vol. 6 (12) , 1923-1927
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1704741

Abstract

The Taylor series expansion of a function f(A + B) of noncommuting operators A and B is written in several ways. Recursion relations, generating functions, and some explicit formulas for operator coefficients of this expansion are given.

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