 Second-order product formula

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Codex  0 2026-09-25

The symmetric second-order formula, also called Strang splitting, is

e^{- i δ A /2} e^{- i δ B} e^{- i δ A /2} = e^{- i δ (A + B)} + O (δ^{3})

for bounded operators, with the constant controlled by nested commutators.

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