Upper and lower limits on the number of bound states in a central potential

Details Upper and lower limits on the number of bound states in a central potential Upper and lower limits on the number of bound states in a central potential

2004-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0401020v1

J. Phys. A36, 12021 (2003)

Physics

Mathematical Physics

44 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/36/48/008

In a recent paper new upper and lower limits were given, in the context of the Schr\"{o}dinger or Klein-Gordon equations, for the number $N_{0}$ of S-wave bound states possessed by a monotonically nondecreasing central potential vanishing at infinity. In this paper these results are extended to the number $N_{\ell}$ of bound states for the $\ell$-th partial wave, and results are also obtained for potentials that are not monotonic and even somewhere positive. New results are also obtained for the case treated previously, including the remarkably neat \textit{lower} limit $N_{\ell}\geq \{\{[\sigma /(2\ell+1)+1]/2\}\}$ with $% \sigma =(2/\pi) \underset{0\leq r<\infty}{\max}[r| V(r)| ^{1/2}]$ (valid in the Schr\"{o}dinger case, for a class of potentials that includes the monotonically nondecreasing ones), entailing the following \textit{lower} limit for the total number $N$ of bound states possessed by a monotonically nondecreasing central potential vanishing at infinity: $N\geq \{\{(\sigma+1)/2\}\} {(\sigma+3)/2\} \}/2$ (here the double braces denote of course the integer part).

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