We read Schur’s First Lemma remembering that a constant matrix (a number times a unit matrix) commutes with all matrices.
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McClain, W.M. (2009). Schur’s First Lemma. In: Symmetry Theory in Molecular Physics with Mathematica. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b13137_31
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