Klein--Gordon oscillator with linear--fractional deformed Casimirs in doubly special relativity

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the Klein-Gordon oscillator within a doubly special relativity framework, revealing how different deformations affect the energy spectra, wavefunctions, and symmetries, and providing exact solutions and comparisons with existing models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel linear-fractional deformation of the Casimir invariant in DSR, deriving exact spectra and solutions for the Klein-Gordon oscillator in various geometries, and compares with the Magueijo--Smolin model.

Findings

Timelike and lightlike deformations produce identical spectra with Planck-suppressed energy shifts.

Spacelike deformation results in isospectral but non-Hermitian wavefunctions.

Explicit $ ext{PT}$-symmetric and pseudo-Hermitian formulations are constructed.

Abstract

We study the Klein--Gordon (KG) oscillator in a doubly special relativity (DSR) framework, where the mass-shell condition is deformed through a linear--fractional (M\"obius-type) modification of the Casimir invariant. This is induced by a nonlinear map from physical momenta $p^\mu$ to auxiliary Lorentz-covariant variables $\pi^\mu$. In $(1+1)$ dimensions, the deformation is controlled by a constant covector $a_\mu$, yielding inequivalent realizations depending on whether $a_\mu$ is timelike, spacelike, or lightlike. Implementing the KG oscillator via a reverted-product nonminimal coupling, we obtain exact closed-form spectra and explicit eigensolutions for both particle and antiparticle branches across all three geometries. Timelike and lightlike deformations produce identical spectra characterized by a Planck-suppressed additive displacement. This breaks the exact $E\leftrightarrow -E$ symmetry via a term linear in $E$, interpretable as a branch-independent reparametrization of the energy origin. Conversely, the spacelike deformation is strictly isospectral to the undeformed oscillator but generates complex-shifted wavefunctions and a non-Hermitian spatial operator. We provide a compact $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric and pseudo-Hermitian formulation by constructing an explicit similarity map $\mathcal{S}$ to a Hermitian oscillator, deriving the metric operator $\eta=\mathcal{S}^\dagger \mathcal{S}$, and establishing biorthonormal relations. Finally, we compare quantitatively with the Magueijo--Smolin (DSR2) model: the squared-denominator invariant leads to a larger Planck-suppressed displacement at fixed $m/E_{Pl}$, highlighting the denominator power's role in controlling spectral shifts. Representative plots illustrate the dependence on deformation ratio, oscillator strength, and excitation level.