Krein's spectral shift function and Fredholm determinants as efficient methods to study supersymmetric quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/BF00955200MaRDI QIDQ580672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Bollé, B. Simon, Fritz Gesztesy, H. Grosse

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00955200

zbMATH Keywords

anomalyKrein's spectral shift functionspectral asymmetrysupersymmetric quantum mechanicstopological invariancetwo- dimensional magnetic field problemWitten index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99) Scattering theory of linear operators (47A40) (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Review text

A new method is proposed to study supersymmetric quantum mechanics. A basic relation is derived between Krein's spectral shift function and the Witten index as a powerful tool for explicit model investigations. The topological invariance of relevant quantities like the index, the anomaly, the spectral asymmetry and the spectral shift function is proved. As an illustration, some model calculations are presented, in particular the two-dimensional magnetic field problem, without assuming the magnetic flux to be quantized.

Recommendations

• Witten index, axial anomaly, and Krein’s spectral shift function in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
• Perturbation determinant, Krein's shift function and index theorem
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 232645
• Exact Witten index in D=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics
• Supersymmetric quantum field theory: indefinite metric

Cited in

(5)

• Topological invariance of the Witten index
• Relative index theorems and supersymmetric scattering theory
• On A-integrability of the spectral shift function of unitary operators arising in the Lax-Phillips scattering theory
• Witten index, axial anomaly, and Krein’s spectral shift function in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
• Supersymmetric quantum field theory: indefinite metric

This page was built for publication: Krein's spectral shift function and Fredholm determinants as efficient methods to study supersymmetric quantum mechanics

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q580672)