The harmonic-oscillator lower-bound and equality conjecture for maximal multiplicities

For NNN\in\mathbb N^*, let ANhar\mathfrak A_N^{har} be the isotropic harmonic-oscillator array, let λkhar\lambda_k^{har} denote its kk-th eigenvalue, and let m(k,A)m(k,\mathfrak A) denote the multiplicity of the kk-th eigenvalue of an admissible array A\mathfrak A. Write mk(N)\mathfrak m_k(N) for the supremum of these multiplicities over the admissible arrays. Harmonic-oscillator maximality conjecture. For every kk and NN,

mk(N)m(k,ANhar),\mathfrak m_k(N)\geq m(k,\mathfrak A_N^{har}),

with equality for those kk such that λk1har<λkhar\lambda_{k-1}^{har}<\lambda_k^{har}. The conjecture proposes the harmonic oscillator as a maximizer, at least at the indicated non-repeated eigenvalue positions. The source later states that the corresponding maximality claim is disproved by the computation m4(3)=4\mathfrak m_4(3)=4, so this conjecture is refuted.

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B. Helffer, T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof and P. Marquetand, “On maximal multiplicities for Hamiltonians with separable variables”, arXiv:1908.02752 (2019).

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