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unitary operator  

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  • In functional analysis, a unitary operator is a surjective bounded operator on a Hilbert space that preserves the inner product. Unitary operators are usually taken as operating on a Hilbert space, but the same notion serves to define the concept of isomorphism between Hilbert spaces.
    A unitary element is a generalization of a unitary operator. In a unital algebra, an element U of the algebra is called a unitary element if U*U = UU* = I,
    where I is the identity element.

    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_operator)

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