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The integral property of the spheroidal wave functions

Quantum Physics 2010-11-22 v3

Abstract

The perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) is used to study whether the spheroidal equations have the shape-invariance property. Expanding the super-potential term by term in the parameter alpha and solving it, we find that the superpotential loses its shape-invariance property upon to the second term. This first means that we could not solve the spheroidal problems by the SUSQM; further it is not unreasonable to say they are non-solvable in some sense.

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@article{arxiv.0906.5563,
  title  = {The integral property of the spheroidal wave functions},
  author = {Guihua Tian and Shuquan Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.5563},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors. In later study, we found the conclusion is wrong in some way