On the physics of the soq(4) hydrogen atom

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In this work we investigate the q-deformation of the so(4) dynamical symmetry of the hydrogen atom using the theory of the quantum group suq(2). We derive the energy spectrum in a physically consistent manner and find a degeneracy breaking as well as a smaller Hilbert space. We point out that using the deformed Casimir as was done before leads to inconsistencies in the physical interpretation of the theory.