A generalized hypergeometric function. III: Associated Hilbert space transform (Q2567478)

The quantum dynamics that lead to \(_2F_1\)-eigenfunctions may be viewed as the center-of-mass two-particle Hamiltonians of suitable Calogero-Moser-Sutherland \(N\)-particle systems. These systems admit a relativistic generalization in terms of an analytic difference equation which can be written as \(\psi (z-i)+V_a(z)\psi (z+i)+V_b(z)\psi (z)=E\psi (z)\). The case of hyperbolic coefficients is associated with a function \(R(a_+,a_-,{\mathbf c};v,\hat v)\) that generalizes the hypergeometric function, defined by the author via a contour integral involving a hyperbolic gamma function. Restricting \(a_+\), \(a_-\) to \((0,\infty )\) and \({\mathbf c}\) to a certain polytope, the author shows that the (renormalized) \(R\)-function kernel gives rise to an isometry from the even subspace of \(L^2(\mathbb{R},\hat w(\hat v)d\hat v)\) to the even subspace of \(L^2(\mathbb{R},w(v)dv)\), where \(\hat w(\hat v)\) and \(w(v)\) are positive and even weight functions. The orthogonal complement of the range of this isometry is spanned by \(N\in \mathbb{N}\) pairwise orthogonal functions which are in essence Askey-Wilson polynomials, arising from the \(R\)-function by choosing \(\hat v=i\kappa _n\) with \(\kappa _0,\dots,\kappa _{N-1}\) distinct negative numbers.