Reflectionless potentials for difference Schrödinger equations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/11/115204MaRDI QIDQ5245693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Satoru Odake, Ryu Sasaki

Publication date 14 April 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2307

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-ultraspherical polynomials with \(|q|=1\)connection formula for \(_2\phi_1\) with \(|q|=1\)difference Schrödinger equationsdiscrete analogue of \(1/\cosh^2 x\) potentialHeine's hypergeometric functions with \(|q|=1\)quantum dilogarithmscattering problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Additive difference equations (39A10) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: As a part of the program `discrete quantum mechanics,' we present general reflectionless potentials for difference Schr"odinger equations with pure imaginary shifts. By combining contiguous integer wave number reflectionless potentials, we construct the discrete analogues of the $h(h+1)/cos{h}^{2}x$ potential with the integer $h$, which belong to the recently constructed families of solvable dynamics having the $q$-ultraspherical polynomials with $|q|=1$ as the main part of the eigenfunctions. For the general ($hinmathbb{R}_{>0}$) scattering theory for these potentials, we need the connection formulas for the basic hypergeometric function ${}_{2}ph{i}_1(genfrac0pta,bc|q;z)$ with $|q|=1$, which is not known. The connection formulas are expected to contain the quantum dilogarithm functions as the $|q|=1$ counterparts of the $q$-gamma functions. We propose a conjecture of the connection formula of the ${}_{2}ph{i}_1$ function with $|q|=1$. Based on the conjecture, we derive the transmission and reflection amplitudes, which have all the desirable properties. They provide a strong support to the conjectured connection formula.

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