Airy function - exact WKB results for potentials of odd degree

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/7/020MaRDI QIDQ4258378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors André Voros

Publication date 12 January 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9811001

zbMATH Keywords

1D homogeneous Schrödinger operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20)

Abstract: An exact WKB treatment of 1-d homogeneous Schr"odinger operators (with the confining potentials $q^N$, $N$ even) is extended to odd degrees $N$. The resulting formalism is first illustrated theoretically and numerically upon the spectrum of the cubic oscillator (potential $|q{|}^3$). Concerning the linear potential (N=1), the theory exhibits a duality in which the Airy functions Ai, Ai' become paired with the spectral determinants of the quartic oscillator (N=4). Classic identities for the Airy function, as well as some less familiar ones, appear in this new perspective as special cases in a general setting.

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