Periodic Sturm-Liouville problems related to two Riccati equations of constant coefficients

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.12.002MaRDI QIDQ2379285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 19 March 2010

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1377

zbMATH Keywords

Bloch solutionsHill discriminantRiccati equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analytical theory of ordinary differential equations: series, transformations, transforms, operational calculus, etc. (34A25) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30)

Abstract: We consider two closely related Riccati equations of constant parameters whose particular solutions are used to construct the corresponding class of supersymmetrically-coupled second-order differential equations. We solve analytically these parametric periodic problems along the positive real axis. Next, the analytically solved model is used as a case study for a powerful numerical approach that is employed here for the first time in the investigation of the energy band structure of periodic not necessarily regular potentials. The approach is based on the well-known self-matching procedure of James (1949) and implements the spectral parameter power series solutions introduced by Kravchenko (2008). We obtain additionally an efficient series representation of the Hill discriminant based on Kravchenko's series

Review text

Consider the following Riccati equations of constant coefficients \[ \frac{dR }{dx}+R^{2}+k_{0}^{2}=0 \] and \[ \frac{d\Phi }{dx}-2S\Phi +\Phi ^{2}+k_{0}^{2}+S^{2}=0. \] By using one particular solution of these Riccati equations, the corresponding supersymmetric partner periodic Sturm- Liouville problems are constructed. These problems are solved analytically in terms of hypergeometric functions. The analytically solved model is used as a case study for a powerful numerical approach that is employed here for the first time in the investigation of the energy band structure of periodic not necessarily regular potentials. Also, an efficient power series representation of Hill discriminant in terms of the Kravchenko's series is obtained.

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