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How to you rigorously express the orthonormality of a complete set of eigenvectors [itex](|q\rangle)_q[/itex] of the position operator given that these are necessarily generalized eigenvectors (elements of the distribution space of a rigged hilbert space)?
The usual unformal condition [itex]\langle q|q'\rangle=\delta(q-q')[/itex] does not make sense as inner product is not defined for a pair of these vectors.
thank you
How to you rigorously express the orthonormality of a complete set of eigenvectors [itex](|q\rangle)_q[/itex] of the position operator given that these are necessarily generalized eigenvectors (elements of the distribution space of a rigged hilbert space)?
The usual unformal condition [itex]\langle q|q'\rangle=\delta(q-q')[/itex] does not make sense as inner product is not defined for a pair of these vectors.
thank you