The Wigner 
-matrix
is the 
unitary matrix
representing an element 
of the special unitary
group 
in its irreducible representation of
dimension 
. Here, 
for a nonnegative integer 
, and the row and column indices 
and 
range from 
to 
in steps of 1. Its entries are the Wigner
D-functions 
, commonly parametrized
by three Euler angles.
As a group representation, the matrix satisfies
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Since it is a unitary matrix,
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where the bar denotes the entrywise complex conjugate, 
denotes the transpose,
and 
is the identity matrix. For integer 
, the group representation
also descends to the rotation group 
, the three-dimensional special orthogonal group.
