# §34.1 Special Notation

(For other notation see Notation for the Special Functions.)

$2j_{1},2j_{2},2j_{3},2l_{1},2l_{2},2l_{3}$ nonnegative integers. nonnegative integers.

The main functions treated in this chapter are the Wigner $\mathit{3j},\mathit{6j},\mathit{9j}$ symbols, respectively,

 $\begin{pmatrix}j_{1}&j_{2}&j_{3}\\ m_{1}&m_{2}&m_{3}\end{pmatrix},$ $\begin{Bmatrix}j_{1}&j_{2}&j_{3}\\ l_{1}&l_{2}&l_{3}\end{Bmatrix},$ $\begin{Bmatrix}j_{11}&j_{12}&j_{13}\\ j_{21}&j_{22}&j_{23}\\ j_{31}&j_{32}&j_{33}\end{Bmatrix}.$

The most commonly used alternative notation for the $\mathit{3j}$ symbol is the Clebsch–Gordan coefficient

 34.1.1 $\left(j_{1}\;m_{1}\;j_{2}\;m_{2}|j_{1}\;j_{2}\;j_{3}\,\,-m_{3}\right)=(-1)^{j_% {1}-j_{2}-m_{3}}(2j_{3}+1)^{\frac{1}{2}}\begin{pmatrix}j_{1}&j_{2}&j_{3}\\ m_{1}&m_{2}&m_{3}\end{pmatrix};$ Symbols: $\begin{pmatrix}\NVar{j_{1}}&\NVar{j_{2}}&\NVar{j_{3}}\\ \NVar{m_{1}}&\NVar{m_{2}}&\NVar{m_{3}}\end{pmatrix}$: $\mathit{3j}$ symbol and $j,j_{r}$: nonnegative integer Sources: Edmonds (1974, p. 46, Eq. (3.7.3)); Rotenberg et al. (1959, p. 1, Eq. (1.1a)) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/34.1.E1 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for 34.1

see Edmonds (1974, p. 46, Eq. (3.7.3)) and Rotenberg et al. (1959, p. 1, Eq. (1.1a)). For other notations for $\mathit{3j}$, $\mathit{6j}$, $\mathit{9j}$ symbols, see Edmonds (1974, pp. 52, 97, 104–105) and Varshalovich et al. (1988, §§8.11, 9.10, 10.10).