Krawtchouk Polynomials, a Unification of Two Different Group Theoretic Interpretations

DOI10.1137/0513072zbMath0505.33015MaRDI QIDQ4740832

Koornwinder, Tom H.

Publication date: 1982

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0513072

zbMATH Keywords

metaplectic representation; Krawtchouk polynomials; spherical and intertwining functions on wreath products of symmetric groups; canonical matrix elements of irreduzible representations of SU(2)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

33C45: Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.)

33C80: Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics

33C55: Spherical harmonics

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