Mail:
Dept. of Chemistry
Ohio State University
100 W. 18th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
Office:
412 CBEC
Email:
herbert@
chemistry.ohio-state.edu
We provide an extensive formulation of the contracted Schrödinger equation and other reduced eigenvalue equations. Nonextensive (unconnected) terms in these equations cancel exactly, leading to completely connected one- and two-electron equations that together are equivalent to the Schrödinger equation. We discuss how these equations can be solved for the one- and two-electron cumulants. These cumulants yield a two-electron reduced density matrix that is necessarily size consistent, even for an approximate solution. A diagram technique, introduced to aid the formal manipulations, clarifies the connection between density matrix reconstruction and solution of the CSE.