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We now proceed to considerations that are of great importance for the applications. If a problem has a certain symmetry, that is, if it is invariant under a certain set of symmetry operations1, then it cam be considerably simplified and is often solvable only by exploiting this symmetry. The study of these symmetries may lead to new theoretic findings. As an example we may mention quantum mechanics.
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Fässler, A., Stiefel, E. (1992). Linear Operators with Symmetries. In: Group Theoretical Methods and Their Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0395-7_2
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