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formations withthegroupproperty
(a) U(O+i?) U(@) U(i)
and thecontinuity
property
(Ai) U~r) U(i) wvhen a -> v (Def. 2.3).
(la) P; 1) 21 J r e-iTd
=(T; i
ie-ilrT, z>0, y(l)<0; Pt(T;) 0, T<0, PM(<0;
(4 bis) XI - X, J() 4 0.
The group property(a) impliesthat U(O) I, U(-u) = U-1 (a) = Us (r).
Hence we obtainfrom(4) the relation
I, g) - (XigfJ)
(XY* fq(r; 1) (U(r)g, f)d
(Xif, 9),
which holds for all f and g in S) and therefore implies(4 bis). In the
fourthplace, we observethat, in accordancewith Th. 4.19, the three
propertiesofXI whichwe havejust provedenableus to assertthe existence
of a unique self-adjointtransformationH such that Xi (H I)-' for
all not-real
1. Finally we must show that the transformationV(W)= eiTH
coincideswithU(0). Accordingto TheoremA, the familyV(T) satisfies
the hypothesesof TheoremsB and C. Hence we can introducethe trans-
formationY1 definedby the relation
+tch
(Y f7 g) J 00(T; l(V( )f, g) d.
By Th. 6.1, we have
=_1Je~
Xd-;E(E())f)g) ~
l1 212 (t)1J1
_____ dIE
() - U() f f* =
iHf whenever
f is in the
Thisresultmeansthat
domainof H. On the otherhand, we can definea transformation
T by
the relationiTf = f*, valid whenever (1(7) U(0) f convergesin -
to an elementJf. Then T is an extensionof H withthe propertythat
(Tf g) 1 ( U(T)U(0) f, q)