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Among the basic symmetry groups of the physical world is the orthogonal group SO(3) of rotations about a point in three-dimensional space.
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Woit, P. (2017). The Rotation and Spin Groups in Three and Four Dimensions . In: Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64612-1_6
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