DYNAMIC INVARIANTS, SCHWINGER FORMALISM AND A NEW
VISION ON QUANTITIES CONSERVED IN QUANTIC MECHANICS
Dynamical invariant, Ermakov invariant, Schwinger principle, oscillator
quantization.
In this work we calculate dynamical invariants using the equations of motion of a
quantum mechanical system and the Schwinger formalism. Both approaches turn out
to be complementary, the second being more fundamental than the first one. The cal-
culations of the invariants are, initially, for the harmonic oscillator with time-dependent
frequency, for oscillators with higher dimension and, at the end, for the one dimensional
time-dependent, damped, driven harmonic oscillator. With the linear invariants associa-
ted with the equations of motion and under the existence condition of solutions for the
diferencial equations of the parameters, it is possible to obtain a new way of canonical
quantization for the one-dimensional oscillator-type systems. This new procedure requi-
res the identification of the linear invariants with ladder operators, which makes possible
to obtain the Hilbert space of the system.