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The Coulomb problem on a 3-sphere and Heun polynomials

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-12 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

The paper studies the quantum mechanical Coulomb problem on a 3-sphere. We present a special parametrization of the ellipto-spheroidal coordinate system suitable for the separation of variables. After quantization we get the explicit form of the spectrum and present an algebraic equation for the eigenvalues of the Runge-Lentz vector. We also present the wave functions expressed via Heun polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.1302.0798,
  title  = {The Coulomb problem on a 3-sphere and Heun polynomials},
  author = {Stefano Bellucci and Vahagn Yeghikyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0798},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, PACS 03.65.-w, 02.30.Ik, 14.80.Hv; typo in eqs. (9) and (12) corrected

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