Macdonald's evaluation conjectures and difference Fourier transform (Q1910208)

It is known that in the theory of Macdonald's orthogonal symmetric polynomials depending on the (difference Fourier transform) parameters \(q\), \(t\) and generalizing the characters of compact simple Lie groups three main conjectures have been formulated (Macdonald, 1988). One of them, the norm conjecture, has been proved recently (Cherednik, 1995) in the framework of a new approach (Cherednik, 1992) to the Macdonald's theory which is based on double affine Hecke algebras and related difference operators. The proof of the other two conjectures, the duality and evaluation conjectures, as well as the recurrence relations and other basic results on Macdonald's polynomials at roots of unity are presented in the paper.