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Rotational and mirror symmetry O(3)

When the density matrices are also invariant under mirror reflections, it follows from Eqs. (5), (6), and (26) that $ \rho (\bm{r},\bm{r}')$ should have positive parity. The spin Pauli matrices form an O(3) pseudovector and thus the nonlocal spin density should be a pseudovector as well. On the right-hand side of Eq. (27), only the last term is a pseudovector. Therefore, in the case of the O(3) symmetry, the spin nonlocal density takes the form:

$\displaystyle \bm{s}(\bm{r},\bm{r}')= \varrho_1''(r^2,\bm{r}\cdot\bm{r}',r^{\prime 2}) (\bm{r}\times\bm{r}'),$ (28)

meaning that the local spin density $ \bm{s}(\bm{r})=0$. It is impossible to build a pseudovector from one vector $ \bm{r}$; therefore, local densities $ \bm{T}(\bm{r})$ and $ \bm{F}(\bm{r})$, being pseudovectors, must vanish, as well as pseudoscalar $ J(\bm{r})=0$ and pseudotensor $ \underline{\mathsf{J}}(\bm{r})=0$. On the other hand, vectors $ \bm{j}(\bm{r})$ and $ \bm{J}(\bm{r})$ do not vanish and take the form (24).



Jacek Dobaczewski 2010-01-30