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

Abstract

With a help of the Schwinger --- DeWitt expansion analytical properties of the evolution operator kernel for the Schrödinger equation in time variable $t$ are studied for the Coulomb and Coulomb-like (which behaves themselves as $1/|\vec{q}|$ when $|\vec{q}|\to 0$) potentials. It turned out to be that the Schwinger --- DeWitt expansion for them is divergent. So, the kernels for these potentials have additional (beyond $\delta$-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 $\delta$-like singularity and for which the initial condition is fulfilled in rigorous sense (such as $V(q)=-\frac{\lambda (\lambda -1)}{2}\frac{1}{{\cosh }^{2}q}$ for integer $\lambda$).

arXiv comment10 pp., LaTeX, accepted by "Modern Physics Letters A"

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