Symmetry and degeneracy of the curved Coulomb potential on the S^3 ball

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/44/445302MaRDI QIDQ3102246zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Pallares-Rivera, Mariana Kirchbach

Publication date 2 December 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: The "curved" Coulomb potential on the S3 ball, whose isometry group is SO(4), takes the form of a cotangent function, and when added to the four-dimensional squared angular momentum operator, one of the so(4) Casimir invariants, a Hamiltonian is obtained which describes a perturbance of the free geodesic motion that results peculiar in several aspects. The spectrum of such a motion has been studied on various occasions and is known to carry unexpectedly so(4) degeneracy patterns despite the non-commutativity of the perturbance with the Casimir operator. We here suggest an explanation for this behavior in designing a set of operators which close the so(4) algebra and whose Casimir invariant coincides with the Hamiltonian of the perturbed motion at the level of the eigenvalue problem. The above operators are related to the canonical geometric SO(4) generators on S3 by a non-unitary similarity transformation of the scaling type. In this fashion, we identify a complementary option to the deformed dynamical so(4) Higgs algebra constructed in terms of the components of the ordinary angular momentum and a related Runge-Lenz vector.

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