Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
On a hidden dynamical SU(3)-symmetry in parasupersymmetric quantum mechanics
J. Beckers, N. Debergh, A. G. Nikitin
Abstract
The superposition of bosons and p=2-parafermions has led to the so-called parasupersymmetric quantum mechanics. The authors show that the structures subtending these developments contain a hidden dynamical SU(3)-symmetry effectively associated with the fundamental irreducible representation 3 (unitarily equivalent to the Gell-Mann one). The representation 3* is also visited. The generalization to arbitrary orders p of paraquantization is briefly discussed.