The harmonic Lagrange top and the confluent Heun equation

DOI10.1134/S1560354722040049MaRDI QIDQ2674290zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sean R. Dawson, H. R. Dullin, Diana M. H. Nguyen

Publication date 22 September 2022

Published in Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14052

zbMATH Keywords

confluent Heun equationHamiltonian Hopf bifurcationLagrange topquantisationsymmetric rigid body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Motion of a rigid body with a fixed point (70E17) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

Abstract: The harmonic Lagrange top is the Lagrange top plus a quadratic (harmonic) potential term. We describe the top in the space fixed frame using a global description with a Poisson structure on $T^{\ast }{S}^3$. This global description naturally leads to a rational parametrisation of the set of critical values of the energy-momentum map. We show that there are 4 different topological types for generic parameter values. The quantum mechanics of the harmonic Lagrange top is described by the most general confluent Heun equation (also known as the generalised spheroidal wave equation). We derive formulas for an infinite pentadiagonal symmetric matrix representing the Hamiltonian from which the spectrum is computed.

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