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Jul 20, 2020 at 17:23 comment added Qmechanic $\uparrow$ It's linear.
Jul 20, 2020 at 17:19 comment added Lucas Baldo I see. Thank you. This normal-ordering is a new concept to me. Since in this case the normal-ordering operatiion is applied to a sum of symbols, I suppose we make use of a linearity of this operation. In other comments of the link you mention I see this linearity property mentioned, but the wikipedia page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_order#Notation) afirms: "Attempting to apply normal ordering to a sum of operators is not useful as normal ordering is not a linear operation". Now I'm confused, is normal-ordering a linear operation or not?
Jul 20, 2020 at 17:12 vote accept Lucas Baldo
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Jul 20, 2020 at 15:50 history answered Qmechanic CC BY-SA 4.0