IBM: parameter symmetry, hidden symmetries and transformations of boson operators

LATEX, 11 pages including 1 eps figure and 1 table prepared as an eps figure; a talk given by A. M. Siirokov at XXII Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Oaxtepec, Morelos, México, 5--8 January, 1999; to be published in Revista Mex. FisA symmetry of the parameter space of interacting boson models IBM-1 and IBM-2 is studied. The symmetry is associated with linear canonical transformations of boson operators, or, equivalently, with the existence of different realizations of the symmetry algebras of the models. The relevance of the parameter symmetry to physical observables is discussed