Journal Home Page Cumulative Index List of all Volumes Complete Contentsof this Volume Previous Article Journal of Lie Theory 18 (2008), No. 3, 697--715Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2008 The Representation Aspect of the Generalized Hydrogen Atoms Guowu Meng Dept. of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong mameng@ust.hk [Abstract-pdf] Let $D\ge 1$ be an integer. In the Enright-Howe-Wallach classification list of the unitary highest weight modules of $\widetilde{{\rm Spin}}(2, D+1)$, the (nontrivial) Wallach representations in Case II, Case III, and the mirror of Case III are special in the sense that they are precisely the ones that can be realized by the Hilbert space of bound states for a generalized hydrogen atom in dimension $D$. It has been shown recently that each of these special Wallach representations can be realized as the space of $L^2$-sections of a canonical hermitian bundle over the punctured $\mathbb{R}^D$. Here a simple algebraic characterization of these special Wallach representations is found. Keywords: Kepler problem, Harish-Chandra modules. MSC: 81R05, 22E70 [ Fulltext-pdf  (243  KB)] for subscribers only.