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Appendix A

























          A.1    Miscellaneous Functions

          The Kronecker Delta Function


                                             1,j = i
                                       δ ij =
                                             0,j  = i.

                                  q
                                             0,p ≤ r ≤ q,
                                    x j δ jr =
                                             0, otherwise.
                                 j=p
                           q

                             x j δ jr (1 − δ jr )= x r .
                          j=p
                                 I n =[δ ij ] n , the unit matrix,
                         n
                            f           f  1

                             r  δ ir    =    j     ,  1 ≤ i, j ≤ n,
                                           1

                        r=1  g r  δ jr  g i

                                                 1
                   n


                           a iq
                      a ip
                                δ ir

                                         a ip  a iq

                                                 1 ,  1 ≤ i, j, k ≤ n.

                        a jp  a jq  δ jr    = a jp  a jq
                           a kq  δ kr        a kp  a kq  1
                  r=1 a kp

                                       1,i even,
                             δ i,even =
                                       0,i odd.
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