Multivariable Big and Little q-Jacobi Polynomials (Q4337408)

Following Koornwinder (1992), the author has introduced a four-parameter family of multi-variable \(BC_n\)-type big \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials and a three parameter family of multivariable little \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials of the same type, with the prescribed properties of these polynomials. The paper is classified into five sections, of which section 1 and 2 describes formal definitions and conventions and notations. Section 3 gives the generalization of the limits from Askey-Wilson polynomials to big and little \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials in one variable. In section 4, two second order \(q\)-difference operators \(D_B\) and \(D_L\) are proved to be triangular with respect to the basis of monomial symmetric functions, the techniques employed to prove orthogonality of the polynomials is initially due to Macdonald (1987). In section 5, the author attempts for certain results for the multidimensional Jackson integrals for their \(q\)-extensions in the form of some propositions and theorems, one of such results may be quoted as \[ P^L_\lambda (x;a,b;q,q)= \Delta(x)^{-1} \sum_{w\in S_n} \text{det} (w)\left(\prod^n_{i=1} p_{\overline \lambda_w-1_{(i)}} (x_i;a,b;q) \right), \] if \((a,b)\in V^q_L\) and \(\lambda\in P^+\). Section 6 includes some of the proofs which were not included in section 5.