The Darboux transformation and algebraic deformations of shape-invariant potentials

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Abstract: We investigate the backward Darboux transformations (addition of a lowest bound state) of shape-invariant potentials on the line, and classify the subclass of algebraic deformations, those for which the potential and the bound states are simple elementary functions. A countable family, m=0,1,2,..., of deformations exists for each family of shape-invariant potentials. We prove that the m-th deformation is exactly solvable by polynomials, meaning that it leaves invariant an infinite flag of polynomial modules mathcalPm(m)subsetmathcalPm+1(m)subset..., where mathcalPn(m) is a codimension m subspace of <1,z,...,zn>. In particular, we prove that the first (m=1) algebraic deformation of the shape-invariant class is precisely the class of operators preserving the infinite flag of exceptional monomial modules mathcalPn(1)=<1,z2,...,zn>. By construction, these algebraically deformed Hamiltonians do not have an mathfraksl(2) hidden symmetry algebra structure.




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