Quasi-exactly solvable extensions of the Kepler-Coulomb potential on the sphere

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2023.169265arXiv2206.01033MaRDI QIDQ6400916FDOQ6400916

Publication date: 2 June 2022

Abstract: We consider a family of extensions of the Kepler-Coulomb potential on a

d

-dimensional sphere and analyze it in a deformed supersymmetric framework, wherein the starting potential is known to exhibit a deformed shape invariance property. We show that the members of the extended family are also endowed with such a property, provided some constraint conditions relating the potential parameters are satisfied, in other words they are conditionally deformed shape invariant. Since, in the second step of the construction of a partner potential hierarchy, the constraint conditions change, we impose compatibility conditions between the two sets to build quasi-exactly solvable potentials with known ground and first-excited states. Some explicit results are obtained for the first three members of the family. We then use a generating function method, wherein the first two superpotentials, the first two partner potentials, and the first two eigenstates of the starting potential are built from some generating function

W_{+} (r)

[and its accompanying function

W_{-} (r)

]. From the results obtained for the latter for the first three family members, we propose some formulas for

W_{p m} (r)

valid for the

m

th family member, depending on

m + 1

constants

a_{0}

,

a_{1}

, ldots,

a_{m}

. Such constants satisfy a system of

m + 1

linear equations. Solving the latter allows us to extend the results up to the seventh family member and then to formulate a conjecture giving the general structure of the

a_{i}

constants in terms of the parameters of the problem.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Completeness of eigenfunctions and eigenfunction expansions in context of PDEs (35P10) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80) Stable homotopy of spheres (55Q45)

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