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Generally, this group contains any existing symmetry of the spatial sections. These symmetries may or may not be sufficient for the purpose of uniqueness and may have to be complemented with other remaining symmetries that affect the time direction or with dynamical transformations that are, in fact, not symmetries. We discuss the extent to which a unitary implementation of the resulting group suffices to fix the quantization\u2014a demand that can be seen as a weaker version of the requirement of invariance. In particular, a strict invariance under certain transformations may eliminate some physically interesting possibilities in the passage to the quantum theory. 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