Compactness property of Lie polynomials in the creation and annihilation operators of the q-oscillator
College
College of Science
Department/Unit
Mathematics and Statistics Department
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Letters in Mathematical Physics
Volume
110
Issue
10
First Page
2639
Last Page
2657
Publication Date
10-1-2020
Abstract
Given a real number q such that 0 < q< 1 , the natural setting for the mathematics of a q-oscillator is an infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert space that is said to provide an interpolation between the Bargmann–Segal space of holomorphic functions and the Hardy–Lebesgue space of analytic functions. The traditional basis states are interrelated by the creation and annihilation operators. Since the commutation relation is q-deformed, the commutator algebra for the creation and annihilation operators is not a low-dimensional Lie algebra like that for the canonical commutation relation. In this study, a characterization of the elements of the said commutator algebra is obtained using spectral properties of the creation and annihilation operators as these faithfully represent the generators of a q-deformed Heisenberg algebra. The derived algebra of the commutator algebra is precisely the set of all compact operators, and the resulting Calkin algebra is algebraically isomorphic to the complex algebra of Laurent polynomials in one indeterminate. As for any operator that is not in the commutator algebra, the action of such an operator on an arbitrary basis state can be approximated by a Lie series of elements from the commutator algebra. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1007/s11005-020-01304-x
Recommended Citation
Cantuba, R. S. (2020). Compactness property of Lie polynomials in the creation and annihilation operators of the q-oscillator. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 110 (10), 2639-2657. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-020-01304-x
Disciplines
Mathematics
Keywords
Lie algebras; Commutation relations (Quantum mechanics); Commutative algebra; Compact operators; Fredholm operators
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