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Superintegrable and Scale-Invariant Quantum Systems with Position-Dependent Mass

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We present a classification of the scale-invariant Schrödinger equations with position-dependent mass admitting second-order integrals of motion.

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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 360–372, March, 2022. Ukrainian DOI: https://doi.org/10.37863/umzh.v74i3.7162.

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Nikitin, A.G. Superintegrable and Scale-Invariant Quantum Systems with Position-Dependent Mass. Ukr Math J 74, 405–419 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-022-02072-8

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