Airy function - exact WKB results for potentials of odd degree

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/7/020zbMATH Open0928.34069arXivmath-ph/9811001OpenAlexW3100166054MaRDI QIDQ4258378FDOQ4258378

Authors: André Voros 

Publication date: 12 January 2000

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

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.

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

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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)

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