New potentials for conformal mechanics

Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: We find under some mild assumptions that the most general potential of 1-dimensional conformal systems with time independent couplings is expressed as

V = V_{0} + V_{1}

, where

V_{0}

is a homogeneous function with respect to a homothetic motion in configuration space and

V_{1}

is determined from an equation with source a homothetic potential. Such systems admit at most an

conformal symmetry which, depending on the couplings, is embedded in Diff(R)

i n t h r e e d i f f e r e n t w a y s . I n o n e c a s e,

SL(2,�R)

i s a l s o e m b e d d e d i n D i f f (S^{1}) . E x a m p l e s o f s u c h m o d e l s i n c l u d e t h o s e w i t h p o t e n t i a l

V=alpha x^2+�eta x^{-2}

f o r a r b i t r a r y c o u p l i n g s

alpha

a n d

�eta

, t h e C a l o g e r o m o d e l s w i t h h a r m o n i c o s c i l l a t o r c o u p l i n g s a n d n o n - l i n e a r m o d e l s w i t h s u i t a b l e m e t r i c s a n d p o t e n t i a l s . I n a d d i t i o n, w e g i v e t h e c o n d i t i o n s o n t h e c o u p l i n g s f o r a c l a s s o f g a u g e t h e o r i e s t o a d m i t a

SL(2,�R)

c o n f o r m a l s y m m e t r y . W e p r e s e n t e x a m p l e s o f s u c h s y s t e m s w i t h g e n e r a l g a u g e g r o u p s a n d g l o b a l s y m m e t r i e s t h a t i n c l u d e t h e i s o m e t r i e s o f

AdS_2 x S^3

a n d

AdS_2 x S^3 x S^3

w h i c h a r i s e a s b a c k g r o u n d s i n

AdS_2/CFT_1$.

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