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In an orthonormal basis of localized atomic orbitals, a ring of three equivalent sites with real hopping $t$ has Hamiltonian $H=(E_0-t)I+tJ$, where $J$ is the three-by-three all-ones matrix. The normalized symmetric state $(|1⟩+|2⟩+|3⟩)/\sqrt{3}$ has energy $E_0+2t$. Its two-dimensional orthogonal complement has energy $E_0-t$. Thus the symmetric state is the unique spatial ground state for $t<0$, with an energy difference $3|t|$ to the excited eigenstates. Equivalently, the three discrete Bloch states have energies $E_0+2t\cos (2\pi l/3)$, $l=0,\pm 1$. Nonorthogonal atomic orbitals instead require a generalized eigenvalue problem.

For nonsingular within-group scatter $E$ and between-group scatter $H$, the statistic is ${\prod }_j(1+{\theta }_j{)}^{-1}$, where ${\theta }_j$ solve the generalized eigenvalue problem $Hv=\theta Ev$. It is small when the group means differ strongly relative to within-group variation. Maximizing a common-covariance normal likelihood under equal and unrestricted means gives the likelihood ratio ${\Lambda }^{N/2}$. Its determinant factors cancel under any nonsingular change of response coordinates. For one response it is equivalent to the analysis of variance F-test.