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Special Function Potentials for the Laplacian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

H. D. Fegan
H. D. Fegan*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The purpose of this paper is to study the operator Δ + q. Here Δ is the Laplace–Beltrami operator on a compact Lie group G and q is a matrix coefficient of a representation of G. We are able to calculate the powers of Δ + q acting on the function qku. This is done in Section 2 and the reader is refered there for definitions of the special functions q and u.

The interest in the operator Δ + q comes originally from physics and in particular from the Schrödinger equation. This is described in [4]. Here we are restricting ourselves to mathematical questions and shall not consider any applications to physics.

In this paper we take the heat equation with potential as

(1.1)

with , the upper half plane, and initial data f(x, 0) = qk(x)u(x).

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 34 , Issue 5 , 01 October 1982 , pp. 1183 - 1194
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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