An affine Weyl group characterization of polynomial Heisenberg algebras

TL;DR

This paper links polynomial Heisenberg algebras, deformations of the harmonic oscillator, to extended affine Weyl groups of type A^{(1)}_m, using supersymmetric quantum mechanics and Painlevé equations to deepen understanding of quantum algebraic structures.

Contribution

It establishes a novel connection between polynomial Heisenberg algebras and extended affine Weyl groups via supersymmetric quantum mechanics and Painlevé equations.

Findings

Connected PHAs to symmetric differential systems.

Related quantum systems to Painlevé equations.

Linked algebraic structures to Bäcklund transformations.

Abstract

We study deformations of the harmonic oscillator algebra known as polynomial Heisenberg algebras (PHAs), and establish a connection between them and extended affine Weyl groups of type $A^{(1)}_m$, where $m$ is the degree of the PHA. To establish this connection, we employ supersymmetric quantum mechanics to first connect a polynomial Heisenberg algebra to symmetric systems of differential equations. This connection has been previously used to relate quantum systems to non-linear differential equations; most notably, the fourth and fifth Painlev\'e equations. Once this is done, we use previous studies on the B\"acklund transformations of Painlev\'e equations and generalizations of their symmetric forms characterized by extended affine Weyl groups. This work contributes to better understand quantum systems and the algebraic structures characterizing them.