 Spherical Laplacian from orbital angular momentum (source code)

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= Spherical Laplacian from orbital angular momentum

In position representation,
$$
\boxed{L^2=-\hbar^2\nabla_{S^2}^2}.
$$
The radial derivatives cancel after substituting $P=-i\hbar\nabla$ into the Cartesian identity for $L^2$.

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