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Trotter Product Formula

The Trotter product formula, also called Trotter's formula or the Lie-Trotter product formula, states that when A and B are self-adjoint operators,

e^(t(A+B))=lim_(n->infty)(e^(tA/n)e^(tB/n))^n.

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Self-Adjoint

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Trotter Product Formula." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TrotterProductFormula.html

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