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Paper
Uniqueness of the orbital angular momentum operators
Abstract
In a separable Hilbert space in which the three Cartesian coordinates form a complete set of commuting variables, it is proved that Hermitian operators which satisfy the commutation relations for the angular momentum operators are unique within a unitary transformation. © 1960 Società Italiana di Fisica.