Solution

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For the ordinary spatial symmetries here, a symmetry operator is a unitary operator preserving the Hamiltonian:
It maps an energy eigenstate to another state with the same energy and preserves the quantum dynamics. More general quantum symmetries can be antiunitary; time reversal is an important separate case.

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