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New infinite families of $N$th-order superintegrable systems separating in Cartesian coordinates

Mathematical Physics 2020-10-28 v2 math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

A study is presented of superintegrable quantum systems in two-dimensional Euclidean space E2E_2 allowing the separation of variables in Cartesian coordinates. In addition to the Hamiltonian HH and the second order integral of motion XX, responsible for the separation of variables, they allow a third integral that is a polynomial of order N(N3)N\, (N\geq3) in the components p1,p2p_1, p_2 of the linear momentum. We focus on doubly exotic potentials, i.e. potentials V(x,y)=V1(x)+V2(y)V(x, y) = V_1(x) + V_2(y) where neither V1(x)V_1(x) nor V2(y)V_2(y) satisfy any linear ordinary differential equation. We present two new infinite families of superintegrable systems in E2E_2 with integrals of order NN for which V1(x)V_1(x) and V2(y)V_2(y) are given by the solution of a nonlinear ODE that passes the Painlev\'e test. This was verified for 3N103\leq N \leq 10. We conjecture that this will hold for any doubly exotic potential and for all NN, and that moreover the potentials will always actually have the Painlev\'e property.

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@article{arxiv.2004.12173,
  title  = {New infinite families of $N$th-order superintegrable systems separating in Cartesian coordinates},
  author = {A. M. Escobar-Ruiz and R. Linares and P. Winternitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12173},
  year   = {2020}
}

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36 pages, 1 figure