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kth Order Energy Correction

  From Eqn 19 we have
eqnarray425
Thus
equation458

Note that in general the (k - 1)th order correction to the wavefunction is required to obtain the kth order energy correction. However, Löwdin[3] has shown it is possible to obtain the 2kth and (2k + 1)th energy corrections with only the kth order correction to the eigenfunction via the following recursive definitions.
eqnarray467


Greg Tschumper
Mon Oct 6 09:20:38 EDT 1997