Solution

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The rotation symmetry requires the quadratic dependence on to be proportional to , so
The quartic terms involving only that pair must be proportional to , and the terms coupling it to must be proportional to . With the convention that the symmetric double sum counts off-diagonal terms twice, this gives
while , , and the common mixed coupling are unrestricted. The stated symmetry imposes no further relation because every term is already even in .

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