Racah Algebra $R(n)$ from Coalgebraic Structures and Chains of $R(3)$ Substructures

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that the quadratic subalgebras within the higher-rank Racah algebra R(n) can be understood as images of R(3) via injective morphisms, providing a new perspective on their structure and relations.

Contribution

It shows that the quadratic subalgebras of R(n) are isomorphic to R(3) and can be obtained through explicit morphisms, unifying their understanding in classical and quantum contexts.

Findings

Quadratic subalgebras in R(n) are images of R(3) via injective morphisms.

Each quadratic subalgebra is isomorphic to the rank one Racah algebra R(3).

Explicit realizations of generators are used to establish the structure.

Abstract

The recent interest in the study of higher-rank polynomial algebras related to $n$-dimensional classical and quantum superintegrable systems with coalgebra symmetry and their connection with the generalised Racah algebra $R(n)$, a higher-rank generalisation of the rank one Racah algebra $R(3)$, raises the problem of understanding the role played by the $n - 2$ quadratic subalgebras generated by the left and right Casimir invariants (sometimes referred as universal quadratic substructures) from this new perspective. Such subalgebra structures play a signficant role in the algebraic derivation of spectrum of quantum superintegrable systems. In this work, we tackle this problem and show that the above quadratic subalgebra structures can be understood, at a fixed $n > 3$, as the images of $n - 2$ injective morphisms of $R(3)$ into $R(n)$. We show that each of the $n-2$ quadratic subalgebras is isomorphic to the rank one Racah algebra $R(3)$. As a byproduct, we also obtain an equivalent presentation for the universal quadratic subtructures generated by the partial Casimir invariants of the coalgebra. The construction, which relies on explicit (symplectic or differential) realisations of the generators, is performed in both the classical and the quantum cases.