Shape invariance through Crum transformation

Abstract

"We show in a rigorous way that Crum´s result regarding the equal eigenvalue spectrum of Sturm-Liouville problems can be obtained iteratively by successive Darboux transformations. Furthermore, it can be shown that all neighbouring Darboux-transformed potentials of higher order, uk and uk+1, satisfy the condition of shape invariance provided the original potential u does so. Based on this result, we prove that under the condition of shape invariance, the nth iteration of the original Sturm-Liouville problem defined solely through the shape invariance is equal to the nth Crum transformation."