Representations of the Lie superalgebra in a Gel'fand–Zetlin basis and Wigner quantum oscillators

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/20/010zbMATH Open1099.17005arXivhep-th/0602169OpenAlexW3098929611MaRDI QIDQ5478554FDOQ5478554

Neli I. Stoilova, J Van der Jeugt, Ronald C. King

Publication date: 13 July 2006

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

Abstract: An explicit construction of all finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the Lie superalgebra gl(1|n) in a Gel'fand-Zetlin basis is given. Particular attention is paid to the so-called star type I representations (``unitary representations), and to a simple class of representations V(p), with p any positive integer. Then, the notion of Wigner Quantum Oscillators (WQOs) is recalled. In these quantum oscillator models, the unitary representations of gl(1|DN) are physical state spaces of the N-particle D-dimensional oscillator. So far, physical properties of gl(1|DN) WQOs were described only in the so-called Fock spaces W(p), leading to interesting concepts such as non-commutative coordinates and a discrete spatial structure. Here, we describe physical properties of WQOs for other unitary representations, including certain representations V(p) of gl(1|DN). These new solutions again have remarkable properties following from the spectrum of the Hamiltonian and of the position, momentum, and angular momentum operators. Formulae are obtained that give the angular momentum content of all the representations V(p) of gl(1|3N), associated with the N-particle 3-dimensional WQO. For these representations V(p) we also consider in more detail the spectrum of the position operators and their squares, leading to interesting consequences. In particular, a classical limit of these solutions is obtained, that is in agreement with the correspondence principle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602169

zbMATH Keywords

Lie superalgebraWigner quantum oscillatorGel'fand-Zetlin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, analytic theory (17B15)

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