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Formal and Precise Derivation of the Green Functions for a Simple Potential

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In formal scattering theory, Green functions are obtained as solutions of a distributional equation. In this paper, we use the Sturm-Liouville theory to compute Green functions within a rigorous mathematical theory. We shall show that both the Sturm-Liouville theory and the formal treatment yield the same Green functions. We shall also show how the analyticity of the Green functions as functions of the energy keeps track of the so-called ``incoming'' and ``outgoing'' boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0107096,
  title  = {Formal and Precise Derivation of the Green Functions for a Simple Potential},
  author = {R. de la Madrid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0107096},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, no figures, presented at the second workshop on "Rigged Hilbert Space in Quantum Mechanics" at Clausthal, Germany, 23-28 July, 1999; minor changes with respect to the published version

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