Méthode du moment angulaire inversé. Partie I : La théorie MI

Abstract

In order to present a general method of calculating wave functions, matrix elements, and intensity factors in molecular rotational problems, we deal here with a theory of reversed angular momentum (MI theory), i.e. momentum whose components obey commutation relations with an anomalous minus sign. This theory is built following the principal corresponding steps of the normal theory and a simple correspondence is established between both of them allowing us to perform calculations in the former and to give the results using the formalism of the latter.In particular we dwell here on the consistency of conventions and notations and on a rigorous presentation of spherical tensor operators in MI theory together with the choice of the optimal set of them leading to simplest calculations.