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Wallis Products from the Four-Dimensional Singular Harmonic Oscillator

Quantum Physics 2026-07-01 v1 Mathematical Physics

Abstract

We present a variational derivation of the Wallis product and its reciprocal from the four-dimensional singular harmonic oscillator. The inverse-square interaction is absorbed into an effective angular parameter ν\nu, so that the lowest exact energy in a fixed sector is E4d,exact=ω(ν+2)E_{4d,\mathrm{exact}}=\hbar\omega(\nu+2). Motivated by the radial Kustaanheimo--Stiefel relation r=ρ2r=\rho^2 between the four-dimensional oscillator and the three-dimensional Coulomb problem, we use the quartic trial family Ra(ρ)=Nρνeaρ4R_a(\rho)=N\rho^\nu e^{-a\rho^4}. The minimized variational energy yields an accuracy ratio governed by adjacent Gamma functions. In the large-ν\nu semiclassical limit, this ratio approaches unity. Restricting ν\nu to the odd sequence ν=2n1\nu=2n-1 gives the standard Wallis product, whereas the even sequence ν=2n\nu=2n gives its reciprocal form. The Coulomb-dual interpretation further relates the two branches to integer and half-integer effective angular sectors in the dual Coulomb/MICZ description. The result shows that Wallis-type infinite products persist under an inverse-square deformation of the oscillator and arise from a common Gamma-function structure in radial variational dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2607.00340,
  title  = {Wallis Products from the Four-Dimensional Singular Harmonic Oscillator},
  author = {Bin Ye and Ruitao Chen and Lei Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.00340},
  year   = {2026}
}

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