Factorization-Algebraization-Path Integration and Dynamical Groups

  • Akira Inomata
  • Raj Wilson
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Abstract

Schrödingerl proposed an elegant method of factorization of a quantum-mechanical second-order linear differential equation into a product of two first-order differential operators often referred to as ladder operators. These ladder operators when acting on respective eigenfunctions create new eigenfunctions with a quantum number raised or lowered by one unit. Schrödinger’s method was further systematically studied for a class of second-order linear differential equations in particular by Infeld and Hull2 who have shown that a second-order differential equation which may be brought into the form:
(0.1)
may be factorized into products of two first-order ladder operators such that
(0.2)

Keywords

Path Integral Dynamical Group Unitary Irreducible Representation Kepler Problem Ladder Operator 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Akira Inomata
    • 1
  • Raj Wilson
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of PhysicsState University of New YorkAlbanyUSA
  2. 2.Department of MathematicsUniversity of TexasSan AntonioUSA

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