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Two-step rational extensions of the harmonic oscillator: exceptional orthogonal polynomials and ladder operators. (English) Zbl 1267.81174

Summary: The type III Hermite \(X_m\) exceptional orthogonal polynomial family is generalized to a double-indexed one \(X_{m_{1},m_{2}}\) (with \(m_1\) even and \(m_2\) odd such that \(m_2 > m_1\)) and the corresponding rational extensions of the harmonic oscillator are constructed by using second-order supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The new polynomials are proved to be expressible in terms of mixed products of Hermite and pseudo-Hermite ones, while some of the associated potentials are linked with rational solutions of the Painlevé IV equation. A novel set of ladder operators for the extended oscillators is also built and shown to satisfy a polynomial Heisenberg algebra of order \(m_2 - m_1 + 1\), which may alternatively be interpreted in terms of a special type of (\(m_2 - m_1 + 2\))th-order shape invariance property.

MSC:

81Q60 Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics
81Q05 Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics
81R15 Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory
81Q10 Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis
33C45 Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.)