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So far, commutators of the form AB − BA = − iC have occurred in which A and B are self-adjoint and C was either bounded and arbitrary or semi-definite. In this chapter the special case, important in quantum mechanics, in which C is the identity operator will be considered.
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Putnam, C.R. (1967). Commutation relations in quantum mechanics. In: Commutation Properties of Hilbert Space Operators and Related Topics. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85938-0_4
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