Analytic continuation of eigenvalues of a quartic oscillator

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0663-6MaRDI QIDQ731341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexandre Eremenko, Andrei Gabrielov

Publication date 2 October 2009

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1461

analytic continuation eigenvalue ramification points Schrödinger operator

Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We consider the Schrodinger operator on the real line with even quartic potential and study analytic continuation of eigenvalues, as functions of the coefficient of the potential. We prove several properties of this analytic continuation conjectured by Bender, Wu, Loeffel and Martin. 1. All eigenvalues are given by branches of two multi-valued analytic functions, one for even eigenfunctions and one for odd ones. 2. The only singularities of these multi-valued functions in the complex plane are algebraic ramification points, and there are only finitely many singularities over each compact subset of the plane.

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For the boundary value problem on the real line \[ -y(x)+(x^4+\alpha x^2)y(x)=\lambda y(x),\quad y(-\infty)=y(\infty)=0 \] the authors study the analytic continuation of its eigenvalues depending on the complex parameter \(\alpha\). Denoting by \(\lambda_n\) the eigenvalues which are real analytic functions of \(\alpha>0\), the authors prove their main result: a) all \(\lambda_n\) are branches of two multi-valued analytic functions \(\Lambda^i\), \(i=0,1\), of \(\alpha\), one for even \(n\), another for odd \(n\); b) the only singularities of \(\Lambda^i\) over the \(\alpha\)-plane are algebraic ramification points; c) for every bounded set \(X\) in the \(\alpha\)-plane, there are only finitely many ramification points of \(\Lambda^i\) over \(X\). At the end of the paper, the authors briefly mention some other one-parametric families of linear differential operators with polynomial potentials which can be treated by the same method.

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