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Central Potentials and the Hydrogen Atom

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When the Hamiltonian function is invariant under rotations, we then expect eigenspaces of the corresponding Hamiltonian operator to carry representations of SO(3).

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Woit, P. (2017). Central Potentials and the Hydrogen Atom. In: Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64612-1_21

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