“…Generally, incorporating LC leads to smaller calculated halfwidths (i.e., the diagonal elements of W) than those obtained from MRB. Moreover, after evaluating the resolvent operator and considering LM, the calculated "effective" halfwidths may be reduced further, as demonstrated in our recent studies of N 2 -broadening of CH 3 X species [6][7][8] . Specifically, for symmetric-tops with k-degeneracy, following Cherkasov [15] , transitions between rotational states should be treated as doublets, with each doublet's components possibly coupled by the LM process.…”