Hidden symmetries of the Higgs oscillator and the conformal algebra

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/50/1/015202zbMATH Open1359.81109arXiv1604.00521OpenAlexW2337398691MaRDI QIDQ2965337FDOQ2965337

Rongvoram Nivesvivat, Oleg Evnin

Publication date: 2 March 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a solution to the long-standing problem of constructing the generators of hidden symmetries of the quantum Higgs oscillator, a particle on a d-sphere moving in a central potential varying as the inverse cosine-squared of the polar angle. This superintegrable system is known to possess a rich algebraic structure, including a hidden SU(d) symmetry that can be deduced from classical conserved quantities and degeneracies of the quantum spectrum. The quantum generators of this SU(d) have not been constructed thus far, except at d=2, and naive quantization of classical conserved quantities leads to deformed Lie algebras with quadratic terms in the commutation relations. The nonlocal generators we obtain here satisfy the standard su(d) Lie algebra, and their construction relies on a recently discovered realization of the conformal algebra, which contains a complete set of raising and lowering operators for the Higgs oscillator. This operator structure has emerged from a relation between the Higgs oscillator Schroedinger equation and the Klein-Gordon equation in Anti-de Sitter spacetime. From such a point-of-view, the construction of the hidden symmetry generators reduces to manipulations within the abstract conformal algebra so(d,2).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00521

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear algebrahidden symmetryAnti-de Sitter spacetimesuperintagrability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) 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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