I posted this on math StackExchange and got no replies, so I'm trying my luck here!
I'm a fourth year physics and math student who is writing up a report on some quantum mechanical symmetries and their consequences. The "audience" for my paper are either senior physics majors or first year graduate students in physics. Wigner's theorem's mathematical content is unfortunately beyond the scope of my report so I decided to "water it down". My question is this: is this an acceptably simplified version of Wigner's theorem?
Theorem (Wigner) Let $\Psi, \Phi$ be arbitrary state vectors in a Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$. Suppose $\delta: \mathscr{H} \mapsto \mathscr{H}$ is bijective and Wigner symmetric (that is, under the mapping $\delta$, the transition probability $\langle \Psi | \Phi \rangle$ is unchanged). Then
- there exists a linear and unitary or antilinear and antiunitary operator $U$ such that $$\delta(\psi) = U \psi U^{-1},$$
- $U$ is unique up to an arbitrary phase factor.
Is there anything I'm misunderstanding with this formulation of Wigner's theorem?