A generalized Macdonald operator

We present an explicit difference operator diagonalized by the Macdonald polynomials associated with an (arbitrary) admissible pair of irreducible reduced crystallographic root systems. By the duality symmetry, this gives rise to an explicit Pieri formula for the Macdonald polynomials in question. The simplest examples of our construction recover Macdonald's celebrated difference operators and associated Pieri formulas pertaining to the minuscule and quasi-minuscule weights. As further by-products, explicit expansions and Littlewood-Richardson type formulas are obtained for the Macdonald polynomials associated with a special class of small weights.Comment: 11 pages. To appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. IMR

On certain multiple Bailey, Rogers and Dougall type summation formulas

A multidimensional generalization of Bailey's very-well-poised bilateral basic hypergeometric ${}_6\psi_6$ summation formula and its Dougall type ${}_5H_5$ hypergeometric degeneration for $q\to 1$ is studied. The multiple Bailey sum amounts to an extension corresponding to the case of a nonreduced root system of certain summation identities associated to the reduced root systems that were recently conjectured by Aomoto and Ito and proved by Macdonald. By truncation, we obtain multidimensional analogues of the very-well-poised unilateral (basic) hypergeometric Rogers ${}_6\phi_5$ and Dougall ${}_5F_4$ sums (both nonterminating and terminating). The terminating sums may be used to arrive at product formulas for the norms of recently introduced ($q$-)Racah polynomials in several variables.Comment: 20 pages, LaTe

Remarks on the Zeros of the Associated Legendre Functions with Integral Degree

We present some formulas for the computation of the zeros of the integral-degree associated Legendre functions with respect to the order.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure

Properties of some families of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in several variables

Limiting cases are studied of the Koornwinder-Macdonald multivariable generalization of the Askey-Wilson polynomials. We recover recently and not so recently introduced families of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in several variables consisting of multivariable Wilson, continuous Hahn and Jacobi type polynomials, respectively. For each class of polynomials we provide systems of difference (or differential) equations, recurrence relations, and expressions for the norms of the polynomials in terms of the norm of the constant polynomial.Comment: 42 pages, AMSLaTeX 1.1 with amssym

Scattering theory of discrete (pseudo) Laplacians on a Weyl chamber

To a crystallographic root system we associate a system of multivariate orthogonal polynomials diagonalizing an integrable system of discrete pseudo Laplacians on the Weyl chamber. We develop the time-dependent scattering theory for these discrete pseudo Laplacians and determine the corresponding wave operators and scattering operators in closed form. As an application, we describe the scattering behavior of certain hyperbolic Ruijsenaars-Schneider type lattice Calogero-Moser models associated with the Macdonald polynomials.Comment: 31 pages, LaTe

On the Equilibrium Configuration of the BC-type Ruijsenaars-Schneider System

It is shown that the ground-state equilibrium configurations of the trigonometric BC-type Ruijsenaars-Schneider systems are given by the zeros of Askey-Wilson polynomials.Comment: 7 pages, LaTe

Self-dual Koornwinder-Macdonald polynomials

We prove certain duality properties and present recurrence relations for a four-parameter family of self-dual Koornwinder-Macdonald polynomials. The recurrence relations are used to verify Macdonald's normalization conjectures for these polynomials.Comment: 21 pages, AMSLaTeX 1.1 with amssym