Unitary operator
Surjective bounded operator on a Hilbert space preserving the inner product / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For unitarity in physics, see Unitarity (physics).
In functional analysis, a unitary operator is a surjective bounded operator on a Hilbert space that preserves the inner product. Unitary operators are usually taken as operating on a Hilbert space, but the same notion serves to define the concept of isomorphism between Hilbert spaces.