Ladder operators for Lamé spheroconal harmonic polynomials

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2012.074MaRDI QIDQ352373zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ricardo Méndez-Fragoso, Eugenio Ley-Koo

Publication date 4 July 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4632

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zbMATH Keywords

ladder operatorsspheroconal harmonicsLamé polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Other special orthogonal polynomials and functions (33C47) Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics (33C80)

Abstract: Three sets of ladder operators in spheroconal coordinates and their respective actions on Lam'e spheroconal harmonic polynomials are presented in this article. The polynomials are common eigenfunctions of the square of the angular momentum operator and of the asymmetry distribution Hamiltonian for the rotations of asymmetric molecules, in the body-fixed frame with principal axes. The first set of operators for Lam'e polynomials of a given species and a fixed value of the square of the angular momentum raise and lower and lower and raise in complementary ways the quantum numbers $n_1$ and $n_2$ counting the respective nodal elliptical cones. The second set of operators consisting of the cartesian components $hat{L}_x$, $hat{L}_y$, $hat{L}_z$ of the angular momentum connect pairs of the four species of polynomials of a chosen kind and angular momentum. The third set of operators, the cartesian components $hat{p}_x$, $hat{p}_y$, $hat{p}_z$ of the linear momentum, connect pairs of the polynomials differing in one unit in their angular momentum and in their parities. Relationships among spheroconal harmonics at the levels of the three sets of operators are illustrated.

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