Antisymmetric orbit functions (Q2473419)

The authors presents the theory of antisymmetric orbit functions, which are exponential functions antisymmetrized with respect to a Weyl group \(W\), corresponding to a Coxeter-Dynkin diagram. The Weyl groups of semisimple Lie groups are finite groups \(W\), acting on the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean space \(E_n\) and generated by reflections \(r_i\), \(i=1,2,\dots,n\). The antisymmetric orbit function corresponding to a point \(\lambda \in E_n\) is defined as \(\varphi _\lambda (x)=\sum_{w \in W}(\text{ det}w)e^{2\pi \text{ i}\langle w\lambda ,x\rangle }\). These functions are closely related to irreducible characters of a compact semisimple Lie group \(G\) of rank \(n\). Up to a sign, values of antisymmetric orbit functions are repeated on copies of the fundamental domain \(F\) of the affine Weyl group in the entire Euclidean space \(E_n\). Antisymmetric orbit functions are solutions of the corresponding Laplace equation in \(E_n\), vanishing on the boundary of the fundamental domain \(F\). Antisymmetric orbit functions determine a so-called antisymmetrized Fourier transform which is closely related to expansions of central functions in characters of irreducible representations of the group \(G\). They also determine a transform on a finite set of points of \(F\). Symmetric and antisymmetric multivariate exponential, sine and cosine discrete transforms are given.