A unification of boson expansion theories: (II). Boson expansions as provided by the functional representation method

Abstract

It is shown that the boson expansions hitherto known, as well as an infinite number of the new ones, can be derived in a unified way in terms of the functional representation technique. Each boson expansion (boson representation) is valid for the carrier space of an irreducible representation of a semisimple compact Lie subgroup of SO(2 N + 1) and can be presented as Dyson-type, Holstein-Primakoff-type or Garbaczewski (Marumori)-type expansion with the corresponding properties concerning finiteness, convergence and hermitian conjugation. The physical boson space can be determined for every expansion and the projection operator is explicitly found. The methods for solving the Schrödinger equation are discussed and the generator coordinate method is shown to be equivalent to the boson expansion approach.