A study of 17O

Using Q-box techniques, linked expansions in terms of the number of folds are carried out for j = 5/2, 1/2 and 3/2 states of 17O, where the complete 0 + 2(h/2π)ω space is included. These expansions are shown to converge very quickly and are compared to energy matrix diagonalizations. The series involved in obtaining the archetypal Q-boxes however converges rather slowly in this space. Calculations are performed for various shift operators with the original and modified Sussex matrix elements. (Auth.)