CES production function with non constant returns to scale

Question

In the equation \begin{equation} Y=\left[ aK^{\frac{\sigma -1}{\sigma }}+\left( 1-a\right) L^{\frac{\sigma -1% }{\sigma }}\right] ^{\frac{\mu \sigma }{\sigma -1}} \label{ces_pf} \end{equation} if $\mu \ne 1$ we have non constant returns to scale (RTS).

This is the only way I can see to get non constant RTS into a CES production function. One cannot have factors which are raised to exponents which sum to above or below one since that violates the form of the CES function.

Is there some other way to get non unitary RTS into the CES function?

Answer 1

Another possibility is \begin{equation} Y=\left[ aK^{\mu_K\frac{\sigma -1}{\sigma }}+\left( 1-a\right) L^{\mu_L \frac{\sigma -1% }{\sigma }}\right] ^{\frac{ \sigma }{\sigma -1}}, \end{equation} with $\mu_K+\mu_L \neq 1$.

Edit: The function is not homothetic in $(K,L)$, and as mentioned by Giskard, the elasticity of substitution is not longer constant, unless $\mu_K=\mu_L$, in which case we obtain the specification proposed by cel.