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The rational Heun operator and Wilson biorthogonal functions

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We consider the rational Heun operator defined as the most general second-order q-difference operator which sends any rational function of type \([(n-1)/n]\) to a rational function of type \([n/(n+1)]\). We shall take the poles to be located on the Askey–Wilson grid. It is shown that this operator is related to the one-dimensional degeneration of the Ruijsenaars–van Diejen Hamiltonians. The Wilson biorthogonal functions of type \({_{10}}\Phi _9\) are found to be solutions of a generalized eigenvalue problem involving rational Heun operators of the special “classical” kind.

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The authors are indebted to V. Spiridonov for drawing their attention to the reference [18].

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Satoshi Tsujimoto

  2. Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Centre-ville Station, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Luc Vinet

  3. Department of Mathematics, School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Alexei Zhedanov

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The work of S.T. is partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 19H01792, 17K18725. The research of L.V. is funded in part by a discovery grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. The work of A.Z. is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11771015)

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Tsujimoto, S., Vinet, L. & Zhedanov, A. The rational Heun operator and Wilson biorthogonal functions. Ramanujan J (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-020-00383-7

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Keywords

  • Rational Heun operators
  • Ruijsenaars–van Diejen Hamiltonians
  • Wilson biorthogonal functions

Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 33D45
  • 47B36