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Spectral Picard-Vessiot fields for Algebro-geometric Schr\"odinger operators

Spectral Theory 2021-02-10 v3 Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

This work is a galoisian study of the spectral problem LΨ=λΨL\Psi=\lambda\Psi, for algebro-geometric second order differential operators LL, with coefficients in a differential field, whose field of constants CC is algebraically closed and of characteristic zero. Our approach regards the spectral parameter λ\lambda an algebraic variable over CC, forcing the consideration of a new field of coefficients for LλL-\lambda, whose field of constants is the field C(Γ)C(\Gamma) of the spectral curve Γ\Gamma. Since C(Γ)C(\Gamma) is no longer algebraically closed, the need arises of a new algebraic structure, generated by the solutions of the spectral problem over Γ\Gamma, called "Spectral Picard-Vessiot field" of LλL-\lambda. An existence theorem is proved using differential algebra, allowing to recover classical Picard-Vessiot theory for each λ=λ0 \lambda = \lambda_0 . For rational spectral curves, the appropriate algebraic setting is established to solve LΨ=λΨL\Psi=\lambda\Psi analitically and to use symbolic integration. We illustrate our results for Rosen-Morse solitons.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00431,
  title  = {Spectral Picard-Vessiot fields for Algebro-geometric Schr\"odinger operators},
  author = {Juan J. Morales-Ruiz and Sonia L. Rueda and Maria-Angeles Zurro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00431},
  year   = {2021}
}

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To appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier