The basic concepts of factorizable problems in one–dimensional Quantum Mechanics, as well as the theory of Shape Invariant potentials are reviewed. The relation of this last theory with a generalization of the classical Factorization Method presented by Infeld and Hull is analyzed in detail. By the use of some properties of the Riccati equation the solutions of Infeld and Hull are greatly gener...

Let V be a Hilbert space, a(·, ·) : V × V → lR a bounded, V-elliptic bilinear form and : V → lR a bounded linear functional. We want to approximate the variational equation: Find u ∈ V such that (3.1) a(u, v) = (v) , v ∈ V. We recall that the Lax-Milgram Lemma ensures the existence and uniqueness of a solution of (3.1). Now, given a finite-dimensional subspace V h ⊂ V , dim V h = n h , the Ritz...