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SIGMA, 2015 Volume 11, 004, 78 pp. (Mi sigma985)

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Hilbert–Schmidt Operators vs. Integrable Systems of Elliptic Calogero–Moser Type IV. The Relativistic Heun (van Diejen) Case

Simon N. M. Ruijsenaars

School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Abstract: The ‘relativistic’ Heun equation is an 8-coupling difference equation that generalizes the 4-coupling Heun differential equation. It can be viewed as the time-independent Schrödinger equation for an analytic difference operator introduced by van Diejen. We study Hilbert space features of this operator and its ‘modular partner’, based on an in-depth analysis of the eigenvectors of a Hilbert–Schmidt integral operator whose integral kernel has a previously known relation to the two difference operators. With suitable restrictions on the parameters, we show that the commuting difference operators can be promoted to a modular pair of self-adjoint commuting operators, which share their eigenvectors with the integral operator. Various remarkable spectral symmetries and commutativity properties follow from this correspondence. In particular, with couplings varying over a suitable ball in ${\mathbb R}^8$, the discrete spectra of the operator pair are invariant under the $E_8$ Weyl group. The asymptotic behavior of an 8-parameter family of orthonormal polynomials is shown to be shared by the joint eigenvectors.

Keywords: relativistic Heun equation; van Diejen operator; Hilbert–Schmidt operators; isospectrality; spectral asymptotics.

MSC: 33E05; 33E30; 39A45; 45C05; 47B39; 81Q05; 81Q10; 81Q80

Received: April 19, 2014; in final form January 10, 2015; Published online January 13, 2015

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2015.004



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