“…The usefulness of such expansions has been pointed out very early in many contexts, including differential geometry, analysis, quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, see, e.g. [3,4,5,6,7,8,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,30,35,41,42,43,45,46,47,49,52,59,60,61,62,63] and references therein.…”