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A product formula for the eigenfunctions of a quartic oscillator

Mathematical Physics 2020-03-27 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider the Schr\"odinger operator on the real line with an even quartic potential. Our main result is a product formula of the type ψk(x)ψk(y)=Rψk(z)K(x,y,z)dz\psi_k(x)\psi_k(y) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \psi_k(z)\mathcal{K}(x,y,z)dz for its eigenfunctions ψk\psi_k. The kernel function K\mathcal{K} is given explicitly in terms of the Airy function Ai(x)\mathrm{Ai}(x), and is positive for appropriate parameter values. As an application, we obtain a particular asymptotic expansion of the eigenfunctions ψk\psi_k.

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@article{arxiv.1312.3493,
  title  = {A product formula for the eigenfunctions of a quartic oscillator},
  author = {Martin Hallnäs and Edwin Langmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.3493},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages. In v2 we added five references, reorganised some of the material and made some minor revisions and corrections; and in v3 we added references to work by T. T. Truong, who obtained a product formula for quartic oscillator eigenfunctions already in 1974

R2 v1 2026-06-22T02:26:16.839Z