The non-self-adjointness of the radial momentum operator inndimensions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/16/311zbMATH Open1042.81016arXivmath-ph/0009016OpenAlexW2012837783MaRDI QIDQ4465652FDOQ4465652

Authors: Gil Paz 

Publication date: 9 June 2004

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

Abstract: The non self-adjointness of the radial momentum operator has been noted before by several authors, but the various proofs are incorrect. We give a rigorous proof that the $n$-dimensional radial momentum operator is not self- adjoint and has no self-adjoint extensions. The main idea of the proof is to show that this operator is unitarily equivalent to the momentum operator on $L^2[(0,infty),dr]$ which is not self-adjoint and has no self-adjoint extensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0009016

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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