Acta Physica Sinica

ON THE HERMITEAN OPERATORS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS

H. C. Lee

Published Jan 1, 1946• 0 citations

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is, after making some necessary preliminaries on the theory ot linear differential operators in one real variable, to obtain the explicit condition that such an operator of any order be a Hermitean operator, and as application of the result point out various quantum-mechanical instances.

DOI: 10.7498/aps.6.8

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