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Cubic Oscillator: Geometric Approach and Zeros of Eigenfunctions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-11-18 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we give a geometric approach to the cubic oscillator with three distinct turning points based on the DSG\mathcal{D\diagup SG}\emph{\ correspondence }introduced in \cite{Thabet+al}. The existence of quantization conditions, depending on extra data for the potential, is related to some particular critical graphs of the quadratic differential λ2(za)(z21)dz2\lambda ^{2}\left(z-a\right) \left( z^{2}-1\right) dz^{2} where λ\lambda is a non vanishing complex number, aC{1,1}a\in \mathbb{C}\diagdown \left\{ -1,1\right\}. We investigate this geometric approach in two level: the first level is studying an inverse spectral problem related to cubic oscillator. The second level describes the zeros locations of eigenfunctions related to this oscillator. Our results may provide a geometric proof of some questions related to cubic potential case.

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@article{arxiv.2511.02050,
  title  = {Cubic Oscillator: Geometric Approach and Zeros of Eigenfunctions},
  author = {Faouzi Thabet and Gliia Braek and Marwa Mansouri and Mondher Chouikhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02050},
  year   = {2025}
}