The family of confluent Virasoro fusion kernels and a non-polynomial q-Askey scheme

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2021.V25.N6.A5zbMATH Open1490.81115arXiv2011.07877OpenAlexW3102111546MaRDI QIDQ2149151FDOQ2149151

Authors: J. Lenells, Julien Roussillon 

Publication date: 28 June 2022

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the recently introduced family of confluent Virasoro fusion kernels $$. We study their eigenfunction properties and show that they can be viewed as non-polynomial generalizations of both the continuous dual $q$-Hahn and the big $q$-Jacobi polynomials. More precisely, we prove that: (i) $mathcal{C}_k$ is a joint eigenfunction of four different difference operators for any positive integer $k$, (ii) $mathcal{C}_k$ degenerates to the continuous dual $q$-Hahn polynomials when $u$ is suitably discretized, and (iii) $mathcal{C}_k$ degenerates to the big $q$-Jacobi polynomials when $sigm{a}_s$ is suitably discretized. These observations lead us to propose the existence of a non-polynomial generalization of the $q$-Askey scheme. The top member of this non-polynomial scheme is the Virasoro fusion kernel (or, equivalently, Ruijsenaars' hypergeometric function), and its first confluence is given by the $mathcal{C}_k$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07877

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15)

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