Basic Properties of Coherent and Generalized Coherent Operators Revisited

Kazuyuki Fujii

Published 2000-09-04, updated 2000-09-18Version 2

In this letter we make a brief review of some basic properties (the matrix elements, the trace, the Glauber formula) of coherent operators and study the corresponding ones for generalized coherent operators based on Lie algebra su(1,1). We also propose some problems.