Generalized Hermite Polynomials and Monodromy-Free Schr\"odinger Operators

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in classifying monodromy-free Schrödinger operators with rational potentials, focusing on those involving generalized Hermite polynomials, and explores their spectral properties and connections to Painlevé IV solutions.

Contribution

It provides explicit conditions for non-singular potentials derived from generalized Hermite polynomials and links their structure to polynomial Heisenberg algebras and Painlevé IV solutions.

Findings

Derived explicit non-singularity conditions for potentials.

Estimated localization range based on polynomial zeros.

Connected non-singular potentials to polynomial Heisenberg algebra and Painlevé IV.

Abstract

The paper gives a review of recent progress in the classification of monodromy-free Schr\"odinger operators with rational potentials. We concentrate on a class of potentials constituted by generalized Hermite polynomials. These polynomials defined as Wronskians of classic Hermite polynomials appear in a number of mathematical physics problems as well as in the theory of random matrices and 1D SUSY quantum mechanics. Being quadratic at infinity, those potentials demonstrate localized oscillatory behavior near the origin. We derive an explicit condition of non-singularity of the corresponding potentials and estimate a localization range with respect to indices of polynomials and distribution of their zeros in the complex plane. It turns out that 1D SUSY quantum non-singular potentials come as a dressing of the harmonic oscillator by polynomial Heisenberg algebra ladder operators. To this end, all generalized Hermite polynomials are produced by appropriate periodic closure of this algebra which leads to rational solutions of the Painlev\'e IV equation. We discuss the structure of the discrete spectrum of Schr\"odinger operators and its link to the monodromy-free condition.