Wallis Products from the Four-Dimensional Singular Harmonic Oscillator
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 , so that the lowest exact energy in a fixed sector is . Motivated by the radial Kustaanheimo--Stiefel relation between the four-dimensional oscillator and the three-dimensional Coulomb problem, we use the quartic trial family . The minimized variational energy yields an accuracy ratio governed by adjacent Gamma functions. In the large- semiclassical limit, this ratio approaches unity. Restricting to the odd sequence gives the standard Wallis product, whereas the even sequence 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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11 pages