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Show that two noncommuting operators cannot have a complete set of common eigenfunctions....

Show that two noncommuting operators cannot have a complete set of common eigenfunctions. Hint: Show that if and  have a complete set of common eigenfunctions, then [, ] f = 0 for any function in Hilbert space.

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