On eigenproblem for inverted harmonic oscillators

DOI10.4064/BC124-6MaRDI QIDQ5155592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 7 October 2021

Published in Banach Center Publications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10641

differential operator generalized eigenvalue problem inverted harmonic oscillator rigged Hilbert space

Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Topological linear spaces of test functions, distributions and ultradistributions (46F05)

Abstract: We consider an eigenvalue problem for an inverted one dimensional harmonic oscillator. We find a complete description for the eigenproblem in

C^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b R)

. The eigenfunctions are described in terms of the confluent hypergeometric functions, the spectrum is

m a t h b b C

. The spectrum of the differential operator

- f r a c d d x^{2} - {o m e g a}^{2} x^{2}

is continuous and has physical significance only for the states which are in

L^{2} (m a t h b b R)

and correspond to real eigenvalues. To identify them we use two approaches. First we define a unitary operator between

L^{2} (m a t h b b R)

and

L^{2}

for two copies of

m a t h b b R

. This operator has the property that the spectrum of the image of the inverted harmonic oscillator corresponds to the spectrum of the operator

- i f r a c d d x

. This shows that the (generalized) spectrum of the inverted harmonic operator is real. The second approach uses rigged Hilbert spaces.

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