A Power-Liouville Hermite Orbit: Common Spectral Quantization of the Singular Sextic Oscillator and Fractional-Power Potentials

Abstract:A singular sextic oscillator in the finite-Hermite biconfluent-Heun hierarchy generates an exact four-member power-Liouville Hermite orbit. Power coordinate transformations with the Liouville amplitude map the hierarchy member $N=4$ to four half-line Schrödinger spectral charts while preserving the physical regular-recessive Wronskian zero set under energy-coupling reparametrization. Two charts are the previously studied $x^{2/3}$ and inverse-square-root conditionally integrable potentials; the orbit embeds this known power-dual pair together with the singular sextic and linear-plus-quadratic charts. On the selected physical slice, the degree-five accessory compatibility obstruction vanishes identically, while the transformed Frobenius index reproduces both published fractional-power centrifugal coefficients. The common endpoint condition yields an exact discrete sequence of quartic Sturmian eigencouplings for the sextic oscillator. Independent two-sided shooting confirms representative eigencouplings and node counts. A matched large-action analysis further derives the first matched-endpoint correction within the leading Langer action and improves the Maslov-shifted effective-level approximation. The construction thus connects exact Hermite solvability, energy quantization, coupling quantization, and power duality within a single spectral orbit.

arXiv:2610.11533 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2610.11533v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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