Dynamical Groups And Spherical Potentials In Classical Mechanics英文电子书.pdf

Commun. math. Phys. 3, 323—333 (1966) Dynamical Groups and Spherical Potentials in Classical Mechanics HENRI BACRY CERN and Faculte des Sciences de Marseille HENRI RUEGG CERN and JEAN-MARIE SOURIAU Faculte des Sciences de Marseille Abstract. The one particle problem in a spherical potential is examined in Classical Mechanics from a group theorical point of view. The constants of motion are classified according to their behaviour under the rotation group $0(3), i.e. according to the irreducible representations D of 80(3) (section 1). 0 The Lie algebras of SO(4) and 80(3) are explicitly built in terms of Poisson brackets for an arbitrary potential, from global considerations. The Kepler and the 3 dimensional oscillator problems are shown to play particular roles with respect to these groups (sections 2 and 3). In the last section, the Kepler problem is analyzed with the aid of the $0(4) group instead of the Lie algebra. It is proved that the transformations generated by the angular momentum and the Runge-Lenz vector form indeed a group of canonical transformations isomorphic to $0(4). Consequences with respect to the quantiza- tion problem are examined. Introduction Since S U (6) has been proposed as a group of symmetry for hadrons, dynamical groups in Quantum Mechanics have been re-investigated in different ways. Two kinds of spherical potentials are interesting from a group theoretical point of view, namely the Coulomb and