Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 4 (2008), 052, 17 pages      arXiv:0711.2320      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2008.052
Contribution to the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics

Zhedanov's Algebra AW(3) and the Double Affine Hecke Algebra in the Rank One Case. II. The Spherical Subalgebra

Tom H. Koornwinder
Korteweg-de Vries Institute, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received November 15, 2007, in final form June 03, 2008; Published online June 10, 2008

Abstract
This paper builds on the previous paper by the author, where a relationship between Zhedanov's algebra AW(3) and the double affine Hecke algebra (DAHA) corresponding to the Askey-Wilson polynomials was established. It is shown here that the spherical subalgebra of this DAHA is isomorphic to AW(3) with an additional relation that the Casimir operator equals an explicit constant. A similar result with q-shifted parameters holds for the antispherical subalgebra. Some theorems on centralizers and centers for the algebras under consideration will finally be proved as corollaries of the characterization of the spherical and antispherical subalgebra.

Key words: Zhedanov's algebra AW(3); double affine Hecke algebra in rank one; Askey-Wilson polynomials; spherical subalgebra.

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