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Zeta-regularisation for exact-WKB resolution of a general 1D Schr\"odinger equation

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-19 v2 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We review an exact analytical resolution method for general one-dimensional (1D) quantal anharmonic oscillators: stationary Schr\"odinger equations with polynomial potentials. It is an exact form of WKB treatment involving spectral (usual) vs "classical" (newer) zeta-regularisations in parallel. The central results are a set of Bohr--Sommerfeld-like but exact quantisation conditions, directly drawn from Wronskian identities, and appearing to extend Bethe-Ansatz formulae of integrable systems. Such exact quantisation conditions do not just select the eigenvalues; some evaluate the spectral determinants, and others the wavefunctions, for the spectral parameter in general position.

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@article{arxiv.1202.3100,
  title  = {Zeta-regularisation for exact-WKB resolution of a general 1D Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {André Voros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3100},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures. V2: minor amendments throughout, with one typo corrected in eq.(19)