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

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2021.V25.N6.A5MaRDI QIDQ2149151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Lenells, Julien Roussillon

Publication date 28 June 2022

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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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 $mathcal{C}_k$.

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