Coupling coefficients of su q (1,1) and multivariate q -Racah polynomials

Gasper & Rahman's multivariate q -Racah polynomials are shown to arise as connection coefficients between families of multivariate q -Hahn or q -Jacobi polynomials. The families of q -Hahn polynomials are constructed as nested Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for the positive-discrete series rep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vinet, Luc, Iliev, Plamen, Genest, Vincent
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116710
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Summary:Gasper & Rahman's multivariate q -Racah polynomials are shown to arise as connection coefficients between families of multivariate q -Hahn or q -Jacobi polynomials. The families of q -Hahn polynomials are constructed as nested Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for the positive-discrete series representations of the quantum algebra suq(1,1) . This gives an interpretation of the multivariate q -Racah polynomials in terms of 3nj symbols. It is shown that the families of q -Hahn polynomials also arise in wavefunctions of q -deformed quantum Calogero–Gaudin superintegrable systems.