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The theory developed permits spectral line shift and width to be calculated from Taylor power series for interatomic potential energies in a concrete system. Various methods of tackling this problem can be found in the literature140,169,171,176 180 (see also survey 181 and references cited therein). Here we invoke a realistic model for the coupling of two mutually perpendicular vibrations which was reported by Burke, Langreth, Persson, and Zhang.1 As in Ref. 1, write the Hamiltonian for the interaction between the modes uh and w, in polar coordinates r and 6, where 6 is the angle between the adsorbate bond and the perpendicular to the surface plane ... 

A function of an operator is defined through its (Taylor) power series. The summation sign should really be understood as a summation over discrete quantum numbers and an integration over continuous labels corresponding to translational motion. 

Let us focus on the third term on the right-hand side of Eq. (3.15). By developing o(r) into a Taylor power series around t = t, we get... 

To obtain the final result, a second approximation is used. This is based on the Taylor power series... 

As is now usual, we start by writing the Hamiltonian operator and attempt to solve the differential equation. The basic strategy is that we recall the idea of a Taylor power series expansion, which can represent any function as a (potentially infinite) power series. Thus we hope we can write and find some way to evaluate the values of a . However, we have to first suffer through a few changes in variable to achieve a simple equation We give more details than most texts at this point so that you can follow the derivation with pencil and paper or the teacher can put... 

The simplest form of approximation to a continuous function is some polynomial. Continuous functions may be approximated in order to provide a simpler form than the original function. Truncated power series representations (such as the Taylor series) are one class of polynomial approximations. 

In the limit as 2 —> oo, this ratio becomes p/k, which approaches zero for finite p. Thus, the series converges for all finite values of p. To test the behavior of the power series as p oo, we consider the Taylor series expansion of... 

In this section, we take an approach that is characteristic of conventional perturbation theories, which involves an expansion of a desired quantity in a series with respect to a small parameter. To see how this works, we start with (2.8). The problem of expressing ln(exp (—tX)) as a power series is well known in probability theory and statistics. Here, we will not provide the detailed derivation of this expression, which relies on the expansions of the exponential and logarithmic functions in Taylor series. Instead, the reader is referred to the seminal paper of Zwanzig [3], or one of many books on probability theory - see for instance [7], The basic idea of the derivation consists of inserting... 

For the dilute solutions for which the osmotic coefficient is most useful, the namral logarithm in Equation (19.52) can be expanded in a Taylor s series, and terms of higher powers can be neglected. The result is... 

In the following, we show that the coefficients a , in Eq. (3.31) are related to the derivatives of the sample wavefunction i ) with respect to X, y, and z at the nucleus of the apex atom in an extremely simple way. (To simplify the notation, we take the nucleus of the apex atom as the origin of the coordinate system, i.e., xo = 0, yo = 0, and zo - 0.) This is similar to the well-known case that the expansion coefficients for a power series are simply related to the derivatives of the function at the point of expansion, the so-called Taylor series or MacLaurin series. We will then obtain the derivative rule again, from a completely different point of view. 

The final term on the right-hand side is already of desired (1 /Vm)n power series form, but the first is not. However, we note that x = b/Vm is a very small number (jc<1) and recall the general Taylor series expansion for 1/(1 — x) (Sidebar 1.7a) ... 

The Taylor series expansion of a function fix) around the point x0 is defined as a power series... 

A method similar to the iterative, is the partial closure method [37], It was formulated originally as an approximated extrapolation of the iterative method at infinite number of iterations. A subsequent more general formulation has shown that it is equivalent to use a truncated Taylor expansion with respect to the nondiagonal part of T instead of T-1 in the inversion method. An interpolation of two sets of charges obtained at two consecutive levels of truncations (e.g. to the third and fourth order) accelerates the convergence rate of the power series [38], This method is no longer in use, because it has shown serious numerical problems with CPCM and IEFPCM. 

It is usual to write the potential function V as a power series expansion in displacement co-ordinates from the equilibrium configuration, so that the coefficients - which are the force constants - give a mathematical representation of the potential surface in terms of the co-ordinates used. Tt is convenient to write the expansion in the form of a Taylor series ... 

Taylor series concept (1.23) to develop the V7, dependence of Z(Vm, T) around the limit (2.29) as the infinite power series... 

A Taylor expansion for ogkx values with varying X substituents is shown in (18). The second derivative in this expression plays an important role in the case of a curved correlation concave correlations can be approximated in terms of the regressional power series expansion of a x with an appropriate r scale. 

Topological information about an arbitrary spin system can be extracted based on a Taylor series expansion of experimental coherence-transfer functions (Chung et al., 1995 Kontaxis and Keeler, 1995) [see Eq. (190)]. Undamped magnetization-transfer functions between two spins i and j are an even-order power series in t, . The first nonvanishing term is of order 2rt if the spins i and j are separated by n intervening couplings (Chung et al., 1995). 

The main problem now is to calculate the action of the Green s function onto the initial state xo- The standard strategy is to expand G in a power series of H. For vanishing A, a highly efficient expansion exists [215,235] in terms of Chebyshev polynomials, Tn H), which is similar to the one used in short-time wave packet propagations [166,171]. For finite A, this expansion has to be modified to account for the absorbing potential. As was shown by Mandelshtam and Taylor [221], the analytically continued Chebyshev polynomials, can be used for this purpose. If the initial... 

This equation includes the first derivative of the energy with respect to the parameter a, Eq. It is also an equation with a very real correspondence to first-order perturbation theory, and that suggests how best to use it. Indeed, the general procedure being outlined here differs from a perturbation expansion in only one minor way. A perturbation expansion is in terms of powers of one or more parameters. The derivative expansion is a Taylor-series-type expansion that has each nth power series term divided by n. That factor converts perturbative energy corrections into energy derivatives. So, Eqn. (30) is conveniently rearranged, just as is usually done in an elementary introduction to perturbation theory ... 

This completes the construction of the elementary functions of state for a closed system their generalization to open system is deferred to Section 1.20. In the formulations (l.lS.lg), (1.13.2g), (1.13.3g), (1.13.4f) the deficit function was written out in terms of differentials of functions of state and in terms of (To —T) and (Po — -P)- As a first approximation one may expand these differences in a Taylor s series up to second powers. The same applies to the generalized functions of state (1.13. Id), (1.13.2d), (1.13.3d), (1.13.4c). The ramifications of such steps have not been explored, but a version equivalent to the first power expansion is provided in Chapter 6. 

Taylor s series A convergent power series used to calculate the value of a function of x at values of x near xo, a fixed number, by expanding the function in terms of powers of (x — xo) = Ax, a small number. 

Most problems in crystallography " are not linear therefore, it is not possible to solve for the parameters directly. For example, the structure factor F hkl) is not a linear function of x, y, z, and B, because it contains cosine functions (Figure 6.21, Chapter 6). If, however,we have an initial set of parameters that are significantly better than a random guess, we can use the method of least squares to improve the parameters. The use of a Taylor s series allows certain functions, such as cosines and sines, to be expanded as a convergent power series so that the higher powers of X, the parameter, make successively smaller and smaller contributions to the total function. If/(x) is a differentiable function for x = xq -i-Ax, then the Taylor s series expression is ... 

For the evaluation of [3] (Step 5 of Algorithm 8.1) Sylvester s expansion formula should be used only if the number of components is small (3 or 4 say). For larger problems the use of power series as discussed in Appendix A. 6 is recommended (Taylor and Webb, 1981). The power series expansions (Eqs. A.6.4 and A.6.7) may be used if the eigenvalues of [T ] are repeated or are complex with no special treatment and should be the default methods in any computer program that performs the relevant computations. 

Unfortunately, the above procedure cannot be used when [] - [/]] is singular and cannot be inverted. Hence, the matrix function [3], though finite, cannot be obtained in this way. A power series expansion of [3] is not convergent for all [< >]. On the other hand, an expansion of the inverse, [3] is convergent and can be calculated even when [] is singular. The series [3] may be expressed as (Taylor and Webb, 1981)... 

The matrix [3] is then obtained by inversion of the result of this series. The series representation (Eq. A.6.6) is preferred to Sylvester s formula (especially when the order of the matrix is > 3 or 4) but is not as fast as the truncated power series (Eq. A.6.4) (Taylor and Webb, 1981). For problems involving a singular, or nearly singular [C>], the series (Eq. A.6.7) is the best alternative to Sylvester s formula. 

The coefficients, a, are often related to one another in a simple way which is determined by the nature of the function. An important method of expressing functions in a power series is the Taylor and Maclaurin expansions. In a Taylor expansion the function f(x) is expanded about a given point xq and the coefficients are related to the values of the derivatives of the function at x = xq. Thus, the Taylor expansion of f(x) is... 

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