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R. Milson

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arXiv2025

Extended Coherent States

Using the formalism of Maya diagrams and ladder operators, we describe the algebra of annihilating operators for the class of rational extensions of the harmonic oscillator. This allows us to construct the corresponding coherent state in the sense of Barut and Girardello. The resulting time-dependent function is an exact solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and a joint eigenfunction of the algebra of annihilators. Using an argument based on Schur functions, we also show that the newly exhibited coherent states asymptotically minimize position-momentum uncertainty.

quant-ph↗
arXiv2018

Rational solutions of dressing chains and higher order Painleve equations

We present a new approach to determine the rational solutions of the higher order Painleve equations associated to periodic dressing chain systems. We obtain new sets of solutions, giving determinantal representations indexed by specific Maya diagrams in the odd case or universal characters in the even case.

math-ph↗
arXiv2015

Recurrence Relations for Exceptional Hermite Polynomials

The bispectral anti-isomorphism is applied to differential operators involving elements of the stabilizer ring to produce explicit formulas for all difference operators having any of the Hermite exceptional orthogonal polynomials as eigenfunctions with eigenvalues that are polynomials in $x$.

math.CA↗
arXiv2014

Zeros of exceptional Hermite polynomials

We study the zeros of exceptional Hermite polynomials associated with an even partition $\lambda$. We prove several conjectures regarding the asymptotic behavior of both the regular (real) and the exceptional (complex) zeros. The real zeros are distributed as the zeros of usual Hermite polynomials and, after contracting by a factor $\sqrt{2n}$, we prove that they follow the semi-circle law. The non-real zeros tend to the zeros of the generalized Hermite polynomial $H_{\lambda}$, provided that these zeros are simple. It was conjectured by Veselov that the zeros of generalized Hermite polynomials are always simple, except possibly for the zero at the origin, but this conjecture remains open.

math.CA↗
arXiv2009

Bianchi identities in higher dimensions

A higher dimensional frame formalism is developed in order to study implications of the Bianchi identities for the Weyl tensor in vacuum spacetimes of the algebraic types III and N in arbitrary dimension $n$. It follows that the principal null congruence is geodesic and expands isotropically in two dimensions and does not expand in $n-4$ spacelike dimensions or does not expand at all. It is shown that the existence of such principal geodesic null congruence in vacuum (together with an additional condition on twist) implies an algebraically special spacetime. We also use the Myers-Perry metric as an explicit example of a vacuum type D spacetime to show that principal geodesic null congruences in vacuum type D spacetimes do not share this property.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2007

On curvature homogeneous 4D Lorentzian manifolds

We prove that a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold that is curvature homogeneous of order 3, or $\CH_3$ for short, is necessarily locally homogeneous. We also exhibit and classify four-dimensional Lorentzian, $\CH_2$ manifolds that are not homogeneous.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2005

VSI_i spacetimes and the epsilon-property

We investigate Lorentzian spacetimes where all zeroth and first order curvature invariants vanish and discuss how this class differs from the one where all curvature invariants vanish (VSI). We show that for VSI spacetimes all components of the Riemann tensor and its derivatives up to some fixed order can be made arbitrarily small. We discuss this in more detail by way of examples.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2004

Vanishing Scalar Invariant Spacetimes in Higher Dimensions

We study manifolds with Lorentzian signature and prove that all scalar curvature invariants of all orders vanish in a higher-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime if and only if there exists an aligned non-expanding, non-twisting, geodesic null direction along which the Riemann tensor has negative boost order.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2004

Alignment and algebraically special tensors in Lorentzian geometry

We develop a dimension-independent theory of alignment in Lorentzian geometry, and apply it to the tensor classification problem for the Weyl and Ricci tensors. First, we show that the alignment condition is equivalent to the PND equation. In 4D, this recovers the usual Petrov types. For higher dimensions, we prove that, in general, a Weyl tensor does not possess aligned directions. We then go on to describe a number of additional algebraic types for the various alignment configurations. For the case of second-order symmetric (Ricci) tensors, we perform the classification by considering the geometric properties of the corresponding alignment variety.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2004

Supersymmetry and algebraic deformations

We describe a class of algebraically solvable SUSY models by considering the deformation of invariant polynomial flags by means of the Darboux transformation. The algebraic deformations corresponding to the addition of a bound state to a shape-invariant potential are particularly interesting. The polynomial flags in question are indexed by a deformation parameter m=1,2,... and lead to new algebraically solvable models. We illustrate these ideas by considering deformations of the hyperbolic Pöschl-Teller potential.

nlin.SI↗
arXiv2004

Quasi-Exact Solvability and the direct approach to invariant subspaces

We propose a more direct approach to constructing differential operators that preserve polynomial subspaces than the one based on considering elements of the enveloping algebra of sl(2). This approach is used here to construct new exactly solvable and quasi-exactly solvable quantum Hamiltonians on the line which are not Lie-algebraic. It is also applied to generate potentials with multiple algebraic sectors. We discuss two illustrative examples of these two applications: an interesting generalization of the Lamé potential which posses four algebraic sectors, and a quasi-exactly solvable deformation of the Morse potential which is not Lie-algebraic.

nlin.SI↗
arXiv2004

Classification of the Weyl Tensor in Higher Dimensions

We discuss the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. This is done by characterizing algebraically special Weyl tensors by means of the existence of aligned null vectors of various orders of alignment. Further classification is obtained by specifying the alignment type and utilizing the notion of reducibility. For a complete classification it is then necessary to count aligned directions, the dimension of the alignment variety, and the multiplicity of principal directions. The present classification reduces to the classical Petrov classification in four dimensions. Some applications are briefly discussed.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2002

Generalizations of pp-wave spacetimes in higher dimensions

We shall investigate $D$-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes in which all of the scalar invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives are zero. These spacetimes are higher-dimensional generalizations of $D$-dimensional pp-wave spacetimes, which have been of interest recently in the context of string theory in curved backgrounds in higher dimensions.

gr-qc↗
arXiv2002

All spacetimes with vanishing curvature invariants

All Lorentzian spacetimes with vanishing invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives are determined. A subclass of the Kundt spacetimes results and we display the corresponding metrics in local coordinates. Some potential applications of these spacetimes are discussed.

gr-qc↗
arXiv1998

Composition sums related to the hypergeometric function

The present note considers a certain family of sums indexed by the set of fixed length compositions of a given number. The sums in question cannot be realized as weighted compositions. However they can be be related to the hypergeometric function, thereby allowing one to factorize the corresponding generating polynomials. This factorization leads to some interesting identities.

math.CO↗
arXiv1998

Algebraic Exact Solvability of trigonometric-type Hamiltonians associated to root systems

In this article, we study and settle several structural questions concerning the exact solvability of the Olshanetsky-Perelomov quantum Hamiltonians corresponding to an arbitrary root system. We show that these operators can be written as linear combinations of certain basic operators admitting infinite flags of invariant subspaces, namely the Laplacian and the logarithmic gradient of invariant factors of the Weyl denominator. The coefficients of the constituent linear combination become the coupling constants of the final model. We also demonstr ate the $L^2$ completeness of the eigenfunctions obtained by this procedure, and describe a straight-forward recursive procedure based on the Freudenthal multiplicity formula for constructing the eigenfunctions explicitly.

solv-int↗
arXiv1998

Quantization of cohomology in semi-simple Lie algebras

The space of realizations of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra by first order differential operators is naturally isomorphic to H^1 with coefficients in the module of functions. The condition that a realization admits a finite-dimensional invariant subspace of functions seems to act as a kind of quantization condition on this H^1. It was known that this quantization of cohomology holds for all realizations on 2-dimensional homogeneous spaces, but the extent to which quantization of cohomology is true in general was an open question. The present article presents the first known counter-examples to quantization of cohomology; it is shown that quantization can fail even if the Lie algebra is semi-simple, and even if the homogeneous space in question is compact. A explanation for the quantization phenomenon is given in the case of semi-simple Lie algebras. It is shown that the set of classes in H^1 that admit finite-dimensional invariant subspaces is a semigroup that lies inside a finitely-generated abelian group. In order for this abelian group be a discrete subset of H^1, i.e. in order for quantization to take place, some extra conditions on the isotropy subalgebra are required. Two different instances of such necessary conditions are presented.

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