Solution

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Use the canonical commutation relations and . For compactness write products without hats in the calculation, on a common domain such as smooth compactly supported wavefunctions. Expanding the commutator gives
The middle two commutators vanish because all the relevant indices differ. The first is , since ; the last is , since . Thus
This is one of the orbital angular momentum commutation relations.

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