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Still another way to calculate representations of the three-dimensional pure rotation group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. H. Albert
Affiliation:
Research Department, Mobil Oil Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Abstract

An explicit formula is derived for exp (iβJz) as a finite sum of irreducible tensor components. With this formula, a technique is developed to obtain the matrix elements of exp (iβJy).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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