On the structure of singularities of integrable Schrödinger operators (Q1590365)

The classical nineteenth century Darboux transformation proved extremely useful as an efficient tool of analysis in quantum mechanics. Unfortunately, virtually all its applications (e.g., in the Schrödinger's factorization algorithm, in the context of the famous inverse scattering transformation or within the Witten's supersymmetric quantum mechanics) shared a common restriction to single dimension. In such a context, Berest and Veselov pay attention to its \(n\)-dimensional version. They discover that among all the partial differential equations, the Schrödinger equation which is of the second order in derivatives remains exceptional since the hypersurfaces of singularities of the Darboux-induced potentials are just hyperplanes. This result could significantly simplify the classification of the \(D\)-integrable models. It has already inspired also a generalization to the Riemannian case, with hyperplanes replaced by the totally geodesic hypersurfaces.