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To extract we now need to trace over the environmental variables, i.e. average out the environmental degrees of freedom. We can most quickly see that,
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as is linear with and
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and it is self evident that
Thus we are left with,
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To proceed from here will require some care.
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Timothy Jones
2006-10-11