$n$-dimensional PDM-damped harmonic oscillators: Linearizability, and exact solvability
Abstract
We consider position-dependent mass (PDM) Lagrangians/Hamiltonians in their standard textbook form, where the long-standing \emph{gain-loss balance} between the kinetic and potential energies is kept intact to allow conservation of total energy (i.e., , , and ). Under such standard settings, we discuss and report on -dimensional PDM damped harmonic oscillators (DHO). We use some -dimensional point canonical transformation to facilitate the linearizability of their -PDM dynamical equations into some -linear DHOs' dynamical equations for constant mass setting. Consequently, the well know exact solutions for the linear DHOs are mapped, with ease, onto the exact solutions for PDM DHOs. A set of one-dimensional and a set of -dimensional PDM-DHO illustrative examples are reported along with their phase-space trajectories.
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@article{arxiv.2107.14617,
title = {$n$-dimensional PDM-damped harmonic oscillators: Linearizability, and exact solvability},
author = {Omar Mustafa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14617},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
15 pages, 20 figures