Breaking Pseudo-Rotational Symmetry through ${\bf H}^2_+$ Metric Deformation in the Eckart Potential Problem

Details Breaking Pseudo-Rotational Symmetry through ${\bf H}^2_+$ Metric Deformation in the Eckart Potential Problem Breaking Pseudo-Rotational Symmetry through ${\bf H}^2_+$ Metric Deformation in the Eckart Potential Problem

2011-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/1112.2333v2

SIGMA 7 (2011), 113, 11 pages

Physics

Mathematical Physics

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Scientific paper

10.3842/SIGMA.2011.113

The peculiarity of the Eckart potential problem on ${\bf H}^2_+$ (the upper sheet of the two-sheeted two-dimensional hyperboloid), to preserve the $(2l+1)$-fold degeneracy of the states typical for the geodesic motion there, is usually explained in casting the respective Hamiltonian in terms of the Casimir invariant of an so(2,1) algebra, referred to as potential algebra. In general, there are many possible similarity transformations of the symmetry algebras of the free motions on curved surfaces towards potential algebras, which are not all necessarily unitary. In the literature, a transformation of the symmetry algebra of the geodesic motion on ${\bf H}^2_+$ towards the potential algebra of Eckart's Hamiltonian has been constructed for the prime purpose to prove that the Eckart interaction belongs to the class of Natanzon potentials. We here take a different path and search for a transformation which connects the $(2l+1)$ dimensional representation space of the pseudo-rotational so(2,1) algebra, spanned by the rank-$l$ pseudo-spherical harmonics, to the representation space of equal dimension of the potential algebra and find a transformation of the scaling type. Our case is that in so doing one is producing a deformed isometry copy to ${\bf H}^2_+$ such that the free motion on the copy is equivalent to a motion on ${\bf H}^2_+$, perturbed by a $\coth$ interaction. In this way, we link the so(2,1) potential algebra concept of the Eckart Hamiltonian to a subtle type of pseudo-rotational symmetry breaking through ${\bf H}^2_+$ metric deformation.

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