Clebsch-Gordan and Racah-Wigner coefficients for a continuous series of representations of \(\mathcal U_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R))\) (Q5961013)

In [Lett. Math. Phys. 37, No. 2, 211-222 (1996; Zbl 0862.17012)], \textit{K. Schmüdgen} introduced and classified a natural class of ``well-behaved'' operator representations of the quantized universal enveloping algebra \(\mathcal U_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R))\) with \(q=e^{\pi i b^2}\) and \(b \in (0,1) \cap (\mathbb R \setminus \mathbb Q)\). Among them, one finds a certain one-parameter subclass of representations \(\pi_\alpha\) (with \(\alpha \in (b+b^{-1})/2+i\mathbb R\)), which are realized on spaces of holomorphic functions on strips around the real axis. These representations do not have a classical \(b \rightarrow 0\) limit. The paper under review studies the tensor products of the representations \(\pi_\alpha\). A remarkable property is that the \(\pi_\alpha\) are closed under forming tensor products. The decomposition of the tensor product of two representations into irreducibles is described by an explicit integral transformation with a distributional kernel which can be viewed as a generalization of the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. Iteration of the Clebsch-Gordan mappings yields the decomposition of triple tensor products in two canonical ways. The relation between the two canonical decompositions is described by an integral transformation with explicit distributional kernel generalizing the Racah-Wigner coefficients.