Abstract. Let b d be the Weyl symbol of the inverse to the harmonic oscillator on R d . We prove that b d and its derivatives satisfy convenient bounds of Gevrey and Gelfand-Shilov type, and obtain explicit expressions for b d . In the even-dimensional case we characterize b d in terms of elementary functions.In the analysis we use properties of radial symmetry and a combination of different techniques involving classical a priori estimates, commutator identities, power series and asymptotic expansions.
IntroductionA fundamental operator in quantum physics and classical analysis is the harmonic oscillatorIn physics the operator H appears in the stationary Schrödinger equation for a particle under the action of a quadratic potential. In classical analysis, H is also known as the Hermite operator, and possesses several convenient properties. For example, the operator H is strictly positive in L 2 (R d ) with discrete spectrum, and the eigenfunctions are the Hermite functions, see for example [7,15,19].By means of the Hermite functions one can express also the kernel of the inverse H −1 . On the other hand, coherently with the point of view of the quantum physics, H −1 can be written as Weyl pseudo-differential operator(see for example the general calculus in [9,10,12,16]