Holes creation and annihilation

First, we express the operator of the electron-hole interband polarization Pw in terms of the electron and hole creation and annihilation operators in the envelope function approximation, following the standard procedure (18), (39) ... 

If applied to the reference state normal order enables us immediately to recognize those terms which survive in the computation of the vacuum amplitudes. The same applies for any model function and, hence, for real multidimensional model spaces, if a proper normal-order sequence is defined for all the particle-hole creation and annihilation operators from the four classes of orbitals (i)-(iv) in Subsection 3.4. In addition to the specification of a proper set of indices for the physical operators, such as the effective Hamiltonian or any other one- or two-particle operator, however, the definition and classification of the model-space functions now plays a crucial role. In order to deal properly with the model-spaces of open-shell systems, an unique set of indices is required, in particular, for identifying the operator strings of the model-space functions (a)< and d )p, respectively. Apart from the particle and hole states (with regard to the many-electron vacuum), we therefore need a clear and simple distinction between different classes of creation and annihilation operators. For this reason, it is convenient for the derivation of open-shell expansions to specify a (so-called) extended normal-order sequence. Six different types of orbitals have to be distinguished hereby in order to reflect not only the classification of the core, core-valence,... orbitals, following our discussion in Subsection 3.4, but also the range of summation which is associated with these orbitals. While some of the indices refer a class of orbitals as a whole, others are just used to indicate a particular core-valence or valence orbital, respectively. 

For particle-hole creation and annihilation the Y operators satisfy the same anticommutation relations as those given above for the X operators. Specifically, we have... 

We assume that the theorem is valid for an operator A which is a product of N particle-hole creation and annihilation operators xi,X2, - x ), that is... 

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