Generalized Holstein–Primakoff realizations deduced by Deenen, Quesne, and Papanicolaou are obtained directly from the algebraic identities satisfied in collective subspaces by the infinitesimal generators of the corresponding dynamical groups.
Two new closely related boson realizations of the Heisenberg–Weyl algebra are derived that are directly equivalent to the introduction of spherical coordinates for the isotropic three-dimensional harmonic oscillator. This provides another way to obtain matrix elements of all physical operators connecting angular-momentum eigenstates, which are represented here by simple products of boson operators acting on the vacuum. Two of these bosons carry the angular-momentum quantum numbers while the third is a novel ‘‘radial boson.’’ In this approach, one begins by finding the nonunitary Dyson and then the unitarized Holstein–Primakoff realizations for the spectrum-generating SU(1,1)×SO(3) algebra of the oscillator. The corresponding mappings of the Heisenberg–Weyl generators are then obtained from their tensor properties under SU(1,1)×SO(3). The Dyson map of the Heisenberg–Weyl generators is not uniquely determined in this way, but the Holstein–Primakoff map is nevertheless unique. The possibility exists for generalization to isotropic oscillators of higher dimension, which are of interest in connection with nuclear collective motion.
In the present series of papers it is intended to determine the nature and study various realizations of the dynamical group of microscopic collective states for an A-nucleon system, defined as those A-particle states invariant under the orthogonal group O(n) associated with the n = A−1 Jacobi vectors. The present paper discusses the case of a hypothetical one-dimensional space. Simple invariance considerations show that the dynamical group of collective states is then the group 𝒮𝓅c(2,R), which is the restriction to the collective subspace of the group 𝒮𝓅(2,R) of linear canonical transformations in n dimensions conserving the O(n) symmetry. In addition to the well-known realization of the dynamical group in the Schrödinger representation based upon the Dzublik–Zickendraht transformation, two new realizations are proposed. The first acts in a Barut Hilbert space, which is the subspace of a Bargmann Hilbert space of analytic functions left invariant by O(n). A unitary mapping is established between the ordinary Hilbert space of collective states and the Barut Hilbert space and coherent collective states are defined in the latter. The second is carried out in terms of one boson creation and one boson annihilation operator through a generalized Holstein–Primakoff representation. The generator of a U(1) group, which is the one-dimensional analog of the U(6) group of the interacting boson model (IBM), can then be expressed in terms of the generators of 𝒮𝓅c(2,R). Finally the generalization of the preceding analysis to a d-dimensional space is outlined in the cases where d = 2 or 3. The dynamical group of collective states becomes 𝒮𝓅c(2d,R).