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Liouville Quantum Mechanics on a Lattice Large from Geometry of Quantum Lorentz Group

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We consider the quantum Lobachevsky space Lq3{\bf L}_q^3, which is defined as subalgebra of the Hopf algebra Aq(SL2(C)){\cal A}_q(SL_2({\bf C})). The Iwasawa decomposition of Aq(SL2(C)){\cal A}_q(SL_2({\bf C})) introduced by Podles and Woronowicz allows to consider the quantum analog of the horospheric coordinates on Lq3{\bf L}_q^3. The action of the Casimir element, which belongs to the dual to Aq{\cal A}_q quantum group Uq(SL2(C))U_q(SL_2({\bf C})), on some subspace in Lq3{\bf L}_q^3 in these coordinates leads to a second order difference operator on the infinite one-dimensional lattice. In the continuos limit q1q\rightarrow 1 it is transformed into the Schr\"{o}dinger Hamiltonian, which describes zero modes into the Liouville field theory (the Liouville quantum mechanics). We calculate the spectrum (Brillouin zones) and the eigenfunctions of this operator. They are qq-continuos Hermit polynomials, which are particular case of the Macdonald or Rogers-Askey-Ismail polynomials. The scattering in this problem corresponds to the scattering of first two level dressed excitations in the ZNZ_N Baxter model in the very peculiar limit when the anisotropy parameter \ga\ga and N N~\rightarrow\infty, or, equivalently, (\ga,N)0(\ga, N)\rightarrow 0.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9310084,
  title  = {Liouville Quantum Mechanics on a Lattice Large from Geometry of Quantum Lorentz Group},
  author = {M. A. Olshanetsky and V. -B. K. Rogov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9310084},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LATEX, 20 pages, no figures, September 1993