Spectral inversion of an indefinite Sturm–Liouville problem due to Richardson

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/13/135305zbMATH Open1161.81366arXiv0806.3517OpenAlexW2087078747MaRDI QIDQ3620902FDOQ3620902

Authors: Paul E. Shanley 

Publication date: 14 April 2009

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

Abstract: We study an indefinite Sturm-Liouville problem due to Richardson whose complicated eigenvalue dependence on a parameter has been a puzzle for decades. In atomic physics a process exists that inverts the usual Schrodinger situation of an energy eigenvalue depending on a coupling parameter into the so-called Sturmian problem where the coupling parameter becomes the eigenvalue which then depends on the energy. We observe that the Richardson equation is of the Sturmian type. This means that the Richardson and its related Schrodinger eigevalue functions are inverses of each other and that the Richardson spectrum is therefore no longer a puzzle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3517

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24)

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• On a problem of R. G. D. Richardson
• Eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with definite and indefinite weights

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