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David Handelman
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Binomial expansion for noncommutative operator

Is it possible to find a closed formula for $(A^\dagger -kA)^n$ with $[A,A^\dagger]=1$ ?

I am looking for the normal ordinate form: $\sum (A)^{n-j}(A^\dagger)^j$— possibly something to do with the commutator, I don't know.