Two elementary proofs of the Wigner theorem on symmetry in quantum mechanics
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Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)
Abstract: In quantum theory, symmetry has to be defined necessarily in terms of the family of unit rays, the state space. The theorem of Wigner asserts that a symmetry so defined at the level of rays can always be lifted into a linear unitary or an antilinear antiunitary operator acting on the underlying Hilbert space. We present a proof of this theorem which is both elementary and economical. Central to our proof is the recognition that a given Wigner symmetry can, by post-multiplication by a unitary symmetry, be taken into either the identity or complex conjugation. Our analysis involves a judicious interplay between the effect a given Wigner symmetry has on certain two-dimensional subspaces and the effect it has on the entire Hilbert space.
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