Renormalized oscillator Hamiltonians
β Scribed by John C Baez; Zhengfang Zhou
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 942 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-8708
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β¦ Synopsis
Let pj, q,, denote the self-adjoint operators -iajax, and multiplication by x, on L'(W), respectively. Let H,, = (l/2) xyr= r o,(pf +qj-l)whereo,>O,andletPbe a polynomial in the q's that is bounded below. The existence and uniqueness problems are considered for H, + IF'(q) renormalized relative to its own ground state. For example, suppose that P has degree 2d and P(q) >~(qf + ... +qz)"-k for some E, k z 0. Then for some lo > 0 there exists a unique continuous function u: [0, A,] + Z,*(W) such that u(n) is the nonnegative normalized ground state of Ho + 2 :P(q):,,,, and (u(A), P(q) u(1)) is bounded on [0,&l. If u is continuous only on (0, A,] uniqueness may fail.
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