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arxiv: quant-ph/0503040 · v1 · pith:RVAO4RQEnew · submitted 2005-03-03 · 🪐 quant-ph

Is the CPT-norm always positive?

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keywords completeeigenfunctionshamiltoniancorrespondingcpt-normalazablefunctionsnon-diagonalizablepositive
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We give an explicit example of an exactly solvable PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with the unbroken PT symmetry which has one eigenfunction with the zero PT-norm. The set of its eigenfunctions is not complete in corresponding Hilbert space and it is non-diagonalizable. In the case of a regular Sturm-Liouville problem any diagonalizable PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with the unbroken PT symmetry has a complete set of positive CPT-normalazable eigenfunctions. For non-diagonalizable Hamiltonians a complete set of CPT-normalazable functions is possible but the functions belonging to the root subspace corresponding to multiple zeros of the characteristic determinant are not eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian anymore.

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