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Rationally-extended radial harmonic oscillator in a position-dependent mass background

Mathematical Physics 2025-12-19 v1 math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that the radial harmonic oscillator problem in the position-dependent mass background of the type m(α;r)=(1+αr2)2m(\alpha;r) = (1+\alpha r^2)^{-2}, α>0\alpha>0, can be solved by using a point canonical transformation mapping the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation onto that of the P\"oschl-Teller I potential with constant mass. The radial harmonic oscillator problem with position-dependent mass is shown to exhibit a deformed shape invariance property in a deformed supersymmetric framework. The inverse point canonical transformation then provides some exactly-solvable rational extensions of the radial harmonic oscillator with position-dependent mass associated with XmX_m-Jacobi exceptional orthogonal polynomials of type I, II, or III. The extended potentials of type I and II are proved to display deformed shape invariance. The spectrum and wavefunctions of the radial harmonic oscillator potential and its extensions are shown to go over to well-known results when the deforming parameter α\alpha goes to zero.

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@article{arxiv.2512.16510,
  title  = {Rationally-extended radial harmonic oscillator in a position-dependent mass background},
  author = {Christiane Quesne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16510},
  year   = {2025}
}

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25 pages, 4 figures