Throughout the notebook we ignore normalisations as well as signs of quantities (freely picking amplitudes or 1 or slopes of 1 regardless of the situation for our NDSolve symmetry conditions).
In particular, even if we were to normalise, we'd still have solutions for the normalisation that would be of the form . Why are we free to ignore the signs?

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Throughout the notebook we ignore normalisations as well as signs of quantities (freely picking amplitudes or 1 or slopes of 1 regardless of the situation for our NDSolve symmetry conditions).  
 In particular, even if we were to normalise, we'd still have solutions for the normalisation that would be of the form   . Why are we free to ignore the signs?

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because positive and negative are the same and differ only in phase

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because positive and negative are completely the same

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because we are working in a positive potential we only keep positive normalisations

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because we cannot have negative energy, we ignore negative normalisations.

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Throughout the notebook we ignore normalisations as well as signs of quantities ...

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