This chapter presents a straightforward application of the material from Chapter 37 (ProjectionOperators). All the character tables in this book have a basis function for every species of every group. Here we will show how they were found- by a simple application of the projection operators to the spherical harmonic functions. Chemists use these functions a lot because they are the angular part of the wave function for the electrons of any free atom. So the basis functions in our character tables should be especially good for chemical problems.
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McClain, W.M. (2009). Tabulated bases for representations. In: Symmetry Theory in Molecular Physics with Mathematica. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b13137_38
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