A Generalized Representation of Fa\'a di Bruno's Formula Using Multivariate Bell Polynomials

Abstract

We provide a novel representation of the total n-th derivative of the multivariate composite function $f \circ g$, i.e. a generalized Fa\`a di Bruno's formula. To this end, we make use of properties of the Kronecker product and the n-th derivative of the left-composite $f$, which allow the use of a multivariate form of partial Bell polynomials to represent the generalized Fa\`a di Bruno's formula. We further show that standard recurrence relations that hold for the univariate partial Bell polynomial also hold for the multivariate partial Bell polynomial under a simple transformation. We apply this generalization of Fa\`a di Bruno's formula to the computation of multivariate moments of the normal distribution.