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3.3 Symmetric form of

Time to try a different approach. Starting with the old definition of ,

and integrating by parts in x,

The first term is of course zero because both and go to zero as . So

Recalling equation 3.3,

Thus we can reduce this cumbersome notation to something a little simpler for those of us with overlap integrals all coded up already as a simple subroutine...

 

This I got to work. It is somewhat more appealing, since T should be a symmetric matrix, i.e. T = T. This is an obvious truth when equation 3.13 is used to calculate T, but is not so from the asymmetric form. There is no good reason for this -- Wesley Allen and I proved all this quite rigorously, so there must be something wrong with my coding of it.



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