A new method in the theory of many-body scattering
Authors:
D. J. Kouri
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Stromungsforschung, 3400, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany
Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Abstract:
New coupled equations for the transition (T) and reactance (K) operators for N-channel, many-body, rearrangement scattering are derived. The key to the new method is the channel coupling array W, which links the various rearrangement channels together. By specializing W to the class of channel permuting arrays, it is shown that the (N−1)st iterate of the kernel of the coupled equations is connected.