Energy Dependent Boundary Conditions and the Few-Body Scattering Problem

Abstract

An exactly solvable problem with energy dependent interaction is investigated in the present paper. The selfadjoint model operator describes the scattering problem for three one-dimensional particles. It is shown that this problem is equivalent to the diffraction problem in the sector with energy dependent boundary conditions. The problem is solved with the help of the Sommerfeld–Maluzhinetz representation, which transforms the partial differential equation for the eigenfunctions to a functional equation on the integral densities. The solution of the functional equation can be constructed explicitly in the case of identical particles. The three-body scattering matrix describing rearrangement and excitation processes is represented in terms of analytic functions.