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Summation property

Note that for the U's we have
eqnarray897
with, in general, the sum over any index of any higher order U function being zero, and as indicated, the proof is by induction. The proof depends on the unit normalization and marginalization properties of the W functions.



David Wolf
Tue Mar 25 08:11:49 CST 1997