Superintegrability and Deformed Oscillator Realizations of Quantum TTW Hamiltonians on Constant-Curvature Manifolds and with Reflections in a Plane

TL;DR

This paper develops a method to construct higher-order symmetry operators for two-dimensional quantum Hamiltonians, providing explicit formulas and extending analysis to curved spaces and systems with reflections, enhancing understanding of superintegrable systems.

Contribution

It introduces a new expansion method for symmetry operators that does not require explicit eigenfunctions, and extends superintegrability analysis to curved manifolds and reflection-including Hamiltonians.

Findings

Explicit formulas for symmetry integrals and algebra

Extension of superintegrability to constant-curvature spaces

Oscillator realizations with finite-dimensional irreducible representations

Abstract

We extend the method for constructing symmetry operators of higher order for two-dimensional quantum Hamiltonians by Kalnins, Kress and Miller (2010). This expansion method expresses the integral in a finite power series in terms of lower degree integrals so as to exhibit it as a first-order differential operators. One advantage of this approach is that it does not require the a priori knowledge of the explicit eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian nor the action of their raising and lowering operators as in their recurrence approach (2011). We obtain insight into the two-dimensional Hamiltonians of radial oscillator type with general second-order differential operators for the angular variable. We then re-examine the Hamiltonian of Tremblay, Turbiner and Winternitz (2009) as well as a deformation discovered by Post, Vinet and Zhedanov (2011) which possesses reflection operators. We will extend the analysis to spaces of constant curvature. We present explicit formulas for the integrals and the symmetry algebra, the Casimir invariant and oscillator realisations with finite-dimensional irreps which fill a gap in the literature.