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Finding the spectrum of a polynomial of the creation and annihilation operators

Is there a general algorithm to find the spectrum of $S S^\dagger$, where $S$ is a homogenous polynomial (of degree $n$) of the annihilation operators (of $d$ variables)?
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Scalar product of coherent states

We suppose for semplicity to have a 1D oscillator, but this is a question abaout the general CCR algebra in oscillators, second quantization, quantum field theory etc. We know coherent states are a ...