Bôcher contractions of conformally superintegrable Laplace equations

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2016.038zbMATH Open1338.81228arXiv1512.09315MaRDI QIDQ288677FDOQ288677

E. M. Subag, Ernest G. Kalnins, W. jun. Miller

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The explicit solvability of quantum superintegrable systems is due to symmetry, but the symmetry is often "hidden". The symmetry generators of 2nd order superintegrable systems in 2 dimensions close under commutation to define quadratic algebras, a generalization of Lie algebras. Distinct systems on constant curvature spaces are related by geometric limits, induced by generalized In"on"u-Wigner Lie algebra contractions of the symmetry algebras of the underlying spaces. These have physical/geometric implications, such as the Askey scheme for hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials. However, the limits have no satisfactory Lie algebra contraction interpretations for underlying spaces with 1- or 0-dimensional Lie algebras. We show that these systems can be best understood by transforming them to Laplace conformally superintegrable systems, with flat space conformal symmetry group $mSO(4,mathbbC)$, and using ideas introduced in the 1894 thesis of B^ocher to study separable solutions of the wave equation in terms of roots of quadratic forms. We show that B^ocher's prescription for coalescing roots of these forms induces contractions of the conformal algebra $mathfrakso(4,mathbbC)$ to itself and yields a mechanism for classifying all Helmholtz superintegrable systems and their limits. In the paper [Acta Polytechnica, to appear, arXiv:1510.09067], we announced our main findings. This paper provides the proofs and more details.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09315

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal superintegrabilitycontractionsLaplace equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12)

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