Equality of two quadratic position-momentum orderings

ID: equality-of-two-quadratic-position-momentum-orderings

On a common invariant domain for the operator products, let the position operator and momentum operator obey . Then , so both displayed expressions equal . In position representation both act on a smooth function as . This particular equality does not imply that arbitrary classical reorderings remain equivalent in quantum mechanics.

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