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The entire asymptotic high temperature expansion of the direct partition function for rotation of a rigid symmetric top is obtained by double application of the Euler–Maclaurin summation formula. The expansion is in the form of an exponential factor times the classical answer times a very simple descending power series in the temperature.
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Kayser et al. (1978) studied this question.
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