Exactly solvable quantum mechanical models with Stückelberg divergences (Q5941934)

In this paper, the author constructs and analyzes a particular, exactly solvable quantum mechanical model with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. This model, defined by its formal Hamiltonian in a precise way, involves vacuum and \(S\)-matrix divergences as well as the so-called Stückelberg divergences, the latter of which usually do not occur in other known renormalizable quantum mechanical models with divergences. Models of the type considered in this article arise in applying the so-called \(1/N\)-expansion method to the Berezin-Maslov-Shvedov field theory, and also in studying scalar quantum field theory in a \(\delta\)-shape potential or the well-known Lee model. As to the construction and analysis of his model proposed here, the author describes its vacuum, \(S\)-matrix, and Stückelberg divergences in detail, then eliminates these divergences by renormalization and transformation methods from perturbation theory, and finally investigates his model beyond the perturbation theory framework. In the course of the latter elaborations, the author constructs a certain evolution operator on the underlying Hilbert space with positive-definite metric, which transforms the Hamiltonian of the model into a suitable canonical form and which allows a precise description of the operators of physical quantities, i.e., the associated operators acting on the Fock space of the model. As it is pointed out, the author's method of eliminating Stückelberg divergences presented here can also be applied to similar quantum mechanical models admitting these kinds of divergences.