Schur's lemma

Special case

If the matrices are an irreducible representation of a group , and if

(1)

for all in , then , where is identity matrix [Ham89, sec.3.14].

General case

Let be a group, and two finite-dimensional irreducible -modules. Then any intertwiner

(2)

satisfies

  • ,
  • , .

The second option is exactly what you've seen above [, FH91, sec.1.2].

References

[Ham89]
M. Hamermesh, Group theory and its application to physical problems. Dover Publications, 1989.
[FH91]
W. Fulton and J. Harris, Representation theory: A first course. Springer, 1991.