$q$-Analog of Gelfand–Graev Basis for the Noncompact Quantum Algebra $U_q(u(n,1))$
Raisa M. Asherova, Čestmír Burdík, Miloslav Havlíček, Yuri F. Smirnov, Valeriy N. Tolstoy

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