Phys. Rev. A 47, 817 - 822 (1993)

Quasiexactly solvable problems in the path-integral formalism

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M. W. Lucht and P. D. Jarvis
Department of Physics, University of Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252C, Hobart 7001, Tasmania

Received 8 July 1992

Quasiexactly solvable problems are treated via the path-integral approach. The generalized Duru-Kleinert formalism involving a combination of a point-canonical transformation and a new-time transformation is applied to power-law and Morse-like quasiexactly solvable problems, and it is shown that these can be grouped into two families. A truncated kernel hypothesis is advanced, whereby the exactly solvable parts of the kernels of each problem within a given family can be transformed into one another. As an application, the ground-state energy eigenvalue and wave function of the N=0 generalized harmonic oscillator are derived from those of the N=0 generalized Coulomb problem.


©1993 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v47/p817
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.47.817
PACS: 03.65.Ge, 31.15.+q, 03.65.Db, 03.65.Ca

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