Self-adjointness of the operators in Wigner’s commutation relations (Q4030965)

The authors study the quantum mechanical one-dimensional harmonic oscillator with \[ \begin{aligned} \text{momentum operator} \quad & p_ c:=-i \left\{ {d\over {dx}} -\left({c \over x}\right)S\right\} \qquad (c\in R \setminus\{0\}),\\ \text{and Hamilton} \quad & H_ c:={1\over 2} \left[ -\left( {d\over {dx}}\right)^ 2- \left( {c\over {x^ 2}}\right)(c- S)+x^ 2\right] \qquad (c\in R\setminus \{0\}), \end{aligned} \] where \(S\) is the reflection operator \((S,\psi)(\cdot)= \psi(-\cdot)\). Together with the usual position operator \(x\) these operators satisfy the Wigner communication relation \[ [x,H_ c]=i\hbar p_ c \qquad \text{and} \qquad [p_ c,H_ c]=-i\hbar x \qquad (c\in R\setminus \{0\}). \] The self-adjointness and the spectra of the operators \(p_ c\) and \(h_ c\) are studied by the authors using previous results of the first author and \textit{S.Kamefuchi} [Quantum field theory and parastatistics, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1982; Zbl 0566.46041)] on the eigenvalue problem of \(p_ c\), and \(h_ c\). Based on Nelson's theorem on analytic vectors the authors prove the essential selfadjointness of the position operators \(x\), the momentum operator \(p_ c\) and the Hamiltonian \(h_ c\) on a suitable domain \(V\), and they show that the spectrum of the selfadjoint operator \(h_ c\) is given by \[ \begin{aligned} \text{sp}(h_ c) &= \{c+1/2+n\mid n\in N_ 0\} \quad (c\in R\setminus \{0\},\;c>-1/2) \qquad \text{and}\\ \text{sp}(h_ c) &= \{-c+1/2+n\mid n\in N_ 0\} \qquad (c\in R\setminus \{0\},\;c<1/2). \end{aligned} \] By rigged Hilbert space techniques the authors obtain the spectral representation of the momentum operator \(p_ c\), especially they show that the integral transformations \[ (B_ c \chi)(k):= \int_ R \overline {\phi_ c(kx)} \chi(x)dx \qquad \text{and} \qquad (B^ \dagger _ c \psi)(x):= \int_ R \phi_ c(kx)\psi(k)dt \] are welldefined and unitary operators on \(\text{L}^ 2(R)\), such that \(B^*=B^ \dagger\) and where \(\phi_ c\) are the generalized eigenfunctions of the momentum operator \(p_ c\) derived by the first author and \textit{S. Kamefuchi} [On the wave-mechanical representation of Bose-like oscillators. J. Math. Phys. 19, 67-78 (1978)]. For \(c=0\) the operator \(B\) coincides with the usual Fourier transformation. With the spectral representation of \(p_ c\) at hand the authors show finally that the spectrum of the momentum operator \(p_ c\) is given by \(\text{sp}(p_ c)=\text{sp}_{ac}(p_ c)=R\setminus \{0\}\) for all \(c\in R\setminus \{0\}\).