Bound States at Threshold in Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
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We propose a general method that allows to detect the existence of normalizable ground states in supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems with non-Fredholm spectrum. We apply our method to show the existence of bound states at threshold in two important cases: 1) the quantum mechanical system describing H-monopoles; 2) the quantum mechanics of D0 branes. e-mail [email protected] Permanent address. e-mail [email protected]
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