On the Evolution Operator Kernel for the Coulomb and Coulomb--Like Potentials.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 9 6 0 5 1 8 8 v 1 2 5 M a y 1 9 9 6 ON THE EVOLUTION OPERATOR KERNEL FOR THE COULOMB AND COULOMB–LIKE POTENTIALS V. A. SLOBODENYUK Abstract With a help of the Schwinger — DeWitt expansion analytical prop- erties of the evolution operator kernel for the Schro?dinger equation in time variable t are studied for the Coulomb and Coulomb-like (which behaves themselves as 1/|~q| when |~q| → 0) potentials. It turned out to be that the Schwinger — DeWitt expansion for them is divergent. So, the kernels for these potentials have additional (beyond δ-like) singularity at t = 0. Hence, the initial condition is fulfilled only in asymptotic sense. It is established that the potentials considered do not belong to the class of potentials, which have at t = 0 exactly δ-like singularity and for which the initial condition is fulfilled in rigorous sense (such as V (q) = ?λ(λ?1)2 1cosh2 q for integer λ). 1 1 Introduction This paper continues the series of works [1, 2, 3] devoted to study of de- pendence of the evolution operator kernel for the Schro?dinger equation on time interval t (especially, in vicinity of origin). We use for the kernel the Schwinger — DeWitt expansion [4, 5, 6] which in one-dimensional case reads 〈q′, t | q, 0〉 = 1√ 2πit exp { i (q′ ? q)2 2t } F (t; q′, q), (1) where F (t; q′, q) = ∞∑ n=0 (it)nan(q ′, q). (2) It was obtained [2] the estimate for the coefficients an which shows that this expansion is usually divergent, if there is no any cancellations of different contributions. Such cancellations really take place for some potentials, as it is established in [3] . For example, for the potential V (q) = ?λ(λ? 1) 2 1 cosh2 q (3) the series (2) converges when λ is integer. Thus, for the most of the potentials the expansion (2) is divergent, but there exist the class of potentials for which this expansion is convergent at some discrete values of the coupling constant g. Divergence of expansion (2) shows that the function F , which is re