On a family of integrals that extend the Askey-Wilson integral (Q743183): Difference between revisions

The authors study a family of integrals \[ I_{N}=\int _{C}{{\Phi(z)dz}\over{2\pi \sqrt{-1}z}} \] where \[ \Phi(z)={{z-z^{-1}}\over{z^{N/2}-z^{-N/2}}}{{(z^{\pm N};q^{N/2})_{\infty}}\over{\prod_{j=1}^{2N}(a_{j}z^{\pm 1};q)_{\infty}}}, \] that extend the Askey-Wilson integral for \(N\geq 3\). They also construct the \((N-1)th\) order linear \(q\)-difference equations for \(I_{N}\) that characterize these integrals and show that a vector of \(q\)-shifted integrals \(I_{N}\) satisfies a first order linear matrix \(q\)-difference system. Finally they give an explicit evaluation of \(I_{N}\) as a sum of \((N-1)BC_{1}\)-type Jackson integrals or \(_{2N+2}\phi_{2N+1}\) basic hypergeometric functions.