Gyutsis: heuristic based calculation of general recoupling coefficients. D. Van Dyck, V. Fack.

PROGRAM SUMMARY
Title of program: GYutsis: VAN DYCK, FACK
Catalogue identifier: ADSA
Ref. in CPC: 154(2003)219
Distribution format: tar gzip file
Operating system: Windows, Linux/Unix
Number of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc: 9400
Keywords: Angular momentum, General recoupling coef., Yutsis graph, Reduction rules, Cyclic structure, Heuristic, Computational Methods.
Programming language used: Java
Computer: ANY .

Other versions of this program:

 Cat. Id.  Title                             Ref. in CPC
 ADRM      CycleCostAlgorithm, GYutsis        151(2003)354                   
 

Nature of physical problem:
A general recoupling coefficient for an arbitrary number of (integer or half-integer) angular momenta can be expressed as a formula consisting of products of 6-j coefficients summed over a certain number of variables. Such a formula can be generated using the program GYutsis (with a graphical user front end ) or CycleCostAlgorithm (with a text-mode user frontt end).

Method of solution:
Using the graphical techniques of Yutsis, Levinson and Vanagas (1962) a summation formula for a general coupling coefficient is obtained by representing the coefficient as a Yutsis graph and by performing a selection of reduction rules valid for such graphs. Each reduction rule contributes to the final summation formula by a numerical factor or by an additional summation variable. Whereas an optimal summation formula (i.e. with a minimum number of summation variables) is hard to obtain, we present here some new heuristic approaches for selecting an edge from a k-cycle in order to transform it into a (k-1)-cycle (k>3) in such a way that a "good" summation formula is obtained.

Typical running time:
From instantaneously for the typical problems to 30 s for the heaviest problems on a Pentium II-350 Linux-system with a 256MB RAM. Additional Comments: Using the code The tar.gz file for this program contains three files. A readme file describing the system. The file gyutsis.1.1.tar.gz, which contains the files required for a Unix installation and the file gyutsis.1.1.zip which contains the Windows files.