Spectrum generating algebra for the continuous spectrum of a free particle in Lobachevski space

DOI10.1063/1.4791683MaRDI QIDQ5396292zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Negro, Mariano Santander, M. Gadella, G. Pronko

Publication date 5 February 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2820

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson algebras (17B63) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

Abstract: In this paper, we construct a Spectrum Generating Algebra (SGA) for a quantum system with purely continuous spectrum: the quantum free particle in a Lobachevski space with constant negative curvature. The SGA contains the geometrical symmetry algebra of the system plus a subalgebra of operators that give the spectrum of the system and connects the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian among themselves. In our case, the geometrical symmetry algebra is $frakso(3,1)$ and the SGA is $frakso(4,2)$. We start with a representation of $frakso(4,2)$ by functions on a realization of the Lobachevski space given by a two sheeted hyperboloid, where the Lie algebra commutators are the usual Poisson-Dirac brackets. Then, introduce a quantized version of the representation in which functions are replaced by operators on a Hilbert space and Poisson-Dirac brackets by commutators. Eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian are given and "naive" ladder operators are identified. The previously defined "naive" ladder operators shift the eigenvalues by a complex number so that an alternative approach is necessary. This is obtained by a non self-adjoint function of a linear combination of the ladder operators which gives the correct relation among the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian. We give an eigenfunction expansion of functions over the upper sheet of two sheeted hyperboloid in terms of the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian.

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