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For $J=\left(\begin{array}{cc}0& -1\\ 1& 0\end{array}\right)$, the real matrix solutions of $AJ=JA$ are preciselyA nonzero such matrix equals $\sqrt{u^2+v^2}{R}_{\theta }$, where $R_{\theta }$ is a planar rotation matrix with $\cos \theta =u/\sqrt{u^2+v^2}$ and $\sin \theta =v/\sqrt{u^2+v^2}$. It acts like multiplication by the complex number $u+iv$. The zero matrix is the zero scalar multiple of any rotation.

A second-rank Cartesian tensor invariant under every proper rotation matrix is a scalar multiple of the Kronecker delta. Half-turns about the coordinate axes kill its off-diagonal entries, and quarter-turns make its diagonal entries equal. A tensor of the form $v_i{w}_j$ is an outer product with matrix rank at most one, so it is isotropic in three dimensions only when it vanishes, equivalently when $v=0$ or $w=0$.

In a right-handed reference frame, the rotation matrix from an orbital plane frame whose first axis points along the ascending node is $R_z(\Omega )R_x(I)$. Its columns are the orbital frame's orthonormal basis expressed in reference coordinates. The unit vector normal is $(\sin \Omega \sin I,-\cos \Omega \sin I,\cos I)$; its dot product with another such normal gives the cosine of their mutual inclination.