sign of spin orbit matrix elements?

[millard alexander]

toni and peter, thanks for your rapid replies.  careful checking
of our results indicates that the molpro output is indeed correct:
the error was in a subtle treatment of the complex conjugation in
transforming from the definite-m to cartesian basis.

millard alexander

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