The Askey-Wilson function transform (Q2777904)

The authors introduce a six-parameter family of integral transforms, containing many well-known hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric integral transforms and orthogonal polynomial systems as limit cases. The integral kernels are \({}_8W_7\) series, which are natural continuations of Askey-Wilson polynomials in their degree and which are eigenfunctions of the Askey-Wilson \(q\)-difference operator. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt is shown that this Askey-Wilson function transform gives an isometry between \(L^2\) spaces for explicit measures having a continuous part and in general an infinite set of discrete mass-points. Moreover, its inverse is again an Askey-Wilson function transform (with different parameter values). This beautiful self-duality is lost in many important limit cases. It also greatly simplifies the analytic study of the transform. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn another paper, the authors have shown that the Askey-Wilson function transform arises naturally as a spherical Fourier transform on the quantum \(SU(1,1)\) group [\textit{E. Koelink} and \textit{J. V. Stokman}, with an appendix by M. Rahman, Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 37, 621-715 (2001; Zbl 1108.33016)].