English
Related papers

Related papers: Separation equations for 2D superintegrable system…

200 papers

We show explicitly that all 2nd order superintegrable systems in 2 dimensions are limiting cases of a single system: the generic 3-parameter potential on the 2-sphere, S9 in our listing. We extend the Wigner-In\"on\"u method of Lie algebra…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Ernest G. Kalnins , Willard Miller , Sarah Post

In this paper, we consider operator realizations of quadratic algebras generated by second-order superintegrable systems in 2D. At least one such realization is given for each set of St\"ackel equivalent systems for both degenerate and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-06 Sarah Post

Two-dimensional quadratic algebras are generalizations of Lie algebras that include the symmetry algebras of 2nd order superintegrable systems in 2 dimensions as special cases. The superintegrable systems are exactly solvable physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Robin Heinonen , Ernest G. Kalnins , Willard Miller , Eyal Subag

We show that properties of hypergeometric type equations become transparent if they are derived from appropriate 2nd order partial differential equations with constant coefficients. In particular, we deduce the symmetries of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Jan Dereziński , Przemysław Majewski

We reconsider non-degenerate second order superintegrable systems in dimension two as geometric structures on conformal surfaces. This extends a formalism developed by the authors, initially introduced for (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Jonathan Kress , Konrad Schöbel , Andreas Vollmer

Quadratic algebras are generalizations of Lie algebras; they include the symmetry algebras of 2nd order superintegrable systems in 2 dimensions as special cases. The superintegrable systems are exactly solvable physical systems in classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Ernest G. Kalnins , Willard Miller

The Eisenhart geometric formalism, which transforms an Euclidean natural Hamiltonian $H=T+V$ into a geodesic Hamiltonian ${\cal T}$ with one additional degree of freedom, is applied to the four families of quadratically superintegrable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Jose F. Cariñena , Francisco J. Herranz , Manuel F. Rañada

Superintegrable systems of 2nd order in 3 dimensions with exactly 3-parameter potentials are intriguing objects. Next to the nondegenerate 4-parameter potential systems they admit the maximum number of symmetry operators but their symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. A. Escobar-Ruiz , W. Miller

The relation between solutions to Helmholtz's equation on the sphere $S^{n-1}$ and the $[{\gr sl}(2)]^n$ Gaudin spin chain is clarified. The joint eigenfuctions of the Laplacian and a complete set of commuting second order operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-08 J. Harnad , P. Winternitz

A method is proposed for evaluation of single and double layer potentials of the Laplace and Helmholtz equations on piecewise smooth manifold boundary elements with constant densities. The method is based on a novel two-term decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Shoken Kaneko , Ramani Duraiswami

It is known that the fairly (most?) general class of 2D superintegrable systems defined on 2D spaces of constant curvature and separating in (geodesic) polar coordinates is specified by two types of radial potentials (oscillator or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Cezary Gonera , Joanna Gonera

We show that a large class of non-degenerate second-order (maximally) superintegrable systems gives rise to Hessian structures, which admit natural (Hessian) coordinates adapted to the superintegrable system. In particular, abundant…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-05-09 John Armstrong , Andreas Vollmer

Superintegrable systems in 2D Darboux spaces were classified and it was found that there exist 12 distinct classes of superintegrable systems with quadratic integrals of motion (and quadratic symmetry algebras generated by the integrals) in…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-08-15 Ian Marquette , Junze Zhang , Yao-Zhong Zhang

We develop new constructions of 2D classical and quantum superintegrable Hamiltonians allowing separation of variables in Cartesian coordinates. In classical mechanics we start from two functions on a one-dimensional phase space, a natural…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Ian Marquette , Masoumeh Sajedi , Pavel Winternitz

Two super-integrable and super-separable classical systems which can be considered as deformations of the harmonic oscillator and the Smorodinsky-Winternitz in two dimensions are studied and identified with motions in spaces of constant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 José F. Cariñena , Manuel F. Rañada , Mariano Santander

We describe a contraction theory for 2nd order superintegrable systems, showing that all such systems in 2 dimensions are limiting cases of a single system: the generic 3-parameter potential on the 2-sphere, S9 in our listing. Analogously,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Willard Miller

We show that there exist 35 choices for the coordinate transformation each leading to a potential for which the stationary Schr\"odinger equation is exactly solvable in terms of the general Heun functions. Because of the symmetry of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-22 A. M. Ishkhanyan

We derive five classes of quantum time-dependent two-state models solvable in terms of the double confluent Heun functions, five other classes solvable in terms of the biconfluent Heun functions, and a class solvable in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 T. A. Shahverdyan , T. A. Ishkhanyan , A. E. Grigoryan , A. M. Ishkhanyan

In this paper we continue the work of Kalnins et al in classifying all second-order conformally-superintegrable (Laplace-type) systems over conformally flat spaces, using tools from algebraic geometry and classical invariant theory. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Joshua Capel , Jonathan Kress

In this article we show that separation of variables for second-order superintegrable systems in two-dimensional Euclidean space generates both exactly solvable (ES) and quasi-exactly solvable (QES) problems in quantum mechanics. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Kalnins , W. Miller , G. S. Pogosyan