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We select for the general Equation "Schrodinger equation":giving the full explicit partial differential equation:

The corresponding time-independent Schrödinger equation for this equation is:

Intuitive definition: real group of rotations + reflections.

Mathematical definition that most directly represents this: the orthogonal group is the group of all matrices that preserve the dot product.

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In this solution of the Schrödinger equation, by the uncertainty principle, position is completely unknown (the particle could be anywhere in space), and momentum (and therefore, energy) is perfectly known.

The plane wave function appears for example in the solution of the Schrödinger equation for a free one dimensional particle. This makes sense, because when solving with the time-independent Schrödinger equation, we do separation of variable on fixed energy levels explicitly, and the plane wave solutions are exactly fixed energy level ones.

When viewed as matrices, it is the group of all matrices that preserve the dot product, i.e.:This implies that it also preserves important geometric notions such as norm (intuitively: distance between two points) and angles.

This is perhaps the best "default definition".

We looking at the definition the orthogonal group is the group of all matrices that preserve the dot product, we notice that the dot product is one example of positive definite symmetric bilinear form, which in turn can also be represented by a matrix as shown at: Section "Matrix representation of a symmetric bilinear form".

By looking at this more general point of view, we could ask ourselves what happens to the group if instead of the dot product we took a more general bilinear form, e.g.:The answers to those questions are given by the Sylvester's law of inertia at Section "All indefinite orthogonal groups of matrices of equal metric signature are isomorphic".

Show up in the solution of the quantum harmonic oscillator after separation of variables leading into the time-independent Schrödinger equation, much like solving partial differential equations with the Fourier series.

I.e.: they are both:

Let's show that this definition is equivalent to the orthogonal group is the group of all matrices that preserve the dot product.

Note that:and for that to be true for all possible $x$ and $y$ then we must have:i.e. the matrix inverse is equal to the transpose.

Conversely, if:is true, then

These matricese are called the orthogonal matrices.

TODO is there any more intuitive way to think about this?

In the case of the Schrödinger equation solution for the hydrogen atom, each orbital is one eigenvector of the solution.

Remember from time-independent Schrödinger equation that the final solution is just the weighted sum of the eigenvector decomposition of the initial state, analogously to solving partial differential equations with the Fourier series.

This is the table that you should have in mind to visualize them: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atomic_orbital&oldid=1022865014#Orbitals_table

Or equivalently, the set of rows is orthonormal, and so is the set of columns. TODO proof that it is equivalent to the orthogonal group is the group of all matrices that preserve the dot product.

From Section "Lie algebra of a isometry group" we reach:

Group of rotations of a rigid body.

Like orthogonal group but without reflections. So it is a "special case" of the orthogonal group.

This is a subgroup of both the orthogonal group and the special linear group.

We can reach it by taking the rotations in three directions, e.g. a rotation around the z axis:then we derive and evaluate at 0:$L_z$ therefore represents the infinitesimal rotation.

Note that the exponential map reverses this and gives a finite rotation around the Z axis back from the infinitesimal generator $L_z$:

Repeating the same process for the other directions gives:We have now found 3 linearly independent elements of the Lie algebra, and since $SO(3)$ has dimension 3, we are done.

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