Here we use Schrodinger's equation of quantum mechanics in N space dimensions and one time, with a harmonic oscillator potential with time dependent coefficients to illustrate LAVF's capability with larger computations. Such higher dimensional systems arise frequently and naturally. It is a rich class in that it contains some simple classical PDE such as the zero potential Schrodinger equation, and also physically significant harmonic oscillator potentials, with large symmetry algebras.
The following command sequence sets the space dimension N (which the user can change if desired), and then sets up the time dependent normalized Schrodinger equation changing the form of V by changing the a(t), b(t) and c(t) (3 sets of values for a(t), b(t) and c(t) are given, and the last is the one in use by the subsequent computation).
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Compute using PDEtools[DeterminingPDE] the determining LHPDE for the infinitesimal symmetries of the Schrodinger equation:
Set up the Lie Algebra of Vector Fields for these symmetries:
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We set up the lhpde object for the detEqs and its associated LAVF LX. We then compute its dimension DimLX, Structure Constants and Lie algebra commutators:
"Time to compute structure=", 1.365
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A laptop with I7 processor and 8 GB RAM takes about 2 secs to compute the structure for the given example with N = 3 yielding a 13 dimensional Lie algebra. The same example takes about 100 secs for N = 10 to compute the structure for the example with N = 10 yielding a 69 dimensional Lie algebra.
Further exploratory computations are:
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