Stäckel transform, coupling constant metamorphosis and algebraization of quasi-exactly solvable systems

Abstract We extend the application of the notions of the Stäckel transform and the coupling constant metamorphosis to quasi-exactly solvable systems. We discover that for a variety of one-dimensional and separable multidimensional quasi-exactly solvable systems, their sl (2) algebraizations can only be achieved via coupling constant metamorphosis after appropriate Stäckel transformations. This discovery has interesting applications, allowing us to derive algebraizations and energies for a wide class of quasi-exactly solvable systems, such as Hooke’s atoms in magnetic fields and Newtonian cosmology. The approach of coupling constant metamorphosis was successfully applied previously in the context of exactly solvable, integrable and superintegrable systems. To our knowledge, the present work is the first to apply the idea and approach in the context of quasi-exactly solvable systems.