Reflection groups in analysis and applications (Q1043880)

Sometimes to discover new results in harmonic analysis and extend classical analysis like Fourier analysis and special functions several variables Lie groups and their representation are studied. The author came in the mid-1980s to realize that it without Lie groups only working with certain finite groups. These are the Coxeter finite reflection groups. The purpose of the paper is to present an overview of how this research area has developed. Some background on finite reflection groups and the development of the differential-difference operators, named Dunkl operators [see \textit{C. F. Dunkl}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 311, No.~1, 167--183 (1989; Zbl 0652.33004)], are presented. There are sections on the interviewing operator, the analogues of the exponential function and the Fourier transform, non-symmetric Jack polynomials, which form an orthogonal basis of polynomials associated with the symmetric groups, and the application of the operators in the solution of the quantum Calogero-Sutherland models.