Extended two-particle Green’s functions

The abstract formalism introduced in this chapter builds the fundament of the theory of extended two-particle Green s functions. Our approach is very general in order to allow for a unified treatment of the different species of extended Green s functions discussed in the main part of this paper. Since the discussed propagators can be applied to a wide variety of physical situations, the emphasis of this chapter lies on the unifying mathematical structure. The formalism is developed simultaneously for (projectile) particles of fermionic and bosonic character. We will define the general extended states which serve to define the primary or model space of the extended Green s functions. We also define the /.j-product under which the previously defined extended states fulfil peculiar orthonormality conditions. Finally we introduce a canonical extension of common Fock-space operators and super-operators to the space of the extended states. 

The extended two-particle propagators can now be understood as projections of the resolvent of the excitation energy operator H onto the primary states ITrs). Without specifying the particular choice [(a), (b), or (c)] we may define the general extended two-particle Green s function Q ui) as a function of the frequency variable (jJ and a matrix with two-particle indices (rs) by the matrix elements... 

We will now derive a Dyson equation by expressing the inverse matrix of the extended two-particle Green s function Qr,y, u ) by a matrix representation of the extended operator H. We already mentioned that the primary set of states l rs) spans a subspace (the model spaice) of the Hilbert space Y. Since the states IVrs) are /r-orthonormal they are also linearly independent and thus form a basis of this subspace. Here and in the following the set of pairs of singleparticle indices (r, s) has to be restricted to r > s for the pp and hh cases (b) and (c) where the states are antisymmetric under permutation of r and s. No restriction applies in the ph case (a). The primary set of states Yr ) can now be extended to a complete basis Qj D Yr ) of the Hilbert space Y. We may further demand that the states Qj) are /r-orthonormal ... 

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