Shai M.J. Haran - Arithmetical Investigations - Representation Theory, Orthogonal Polynomials, and Quantum Interpolations.pdf

Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1941
Editors:
J.-M. Morel, Cachan
F. Takens, Groningen
B. Teissier, Paris
Shai . Haran
Arithmetical Investigations
Representation Theory, Orthogonal
Polynomials, and Quantum Interpolations
123
Shai . Haran
Department of Mathematics
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, 32000
Israel
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ISBN 978-3-540-78378-7 e-ISBN 978-3-540-78379-4
DOI: -3-540-78379-4
Lecture Notes in Mathematics ISSN print edition: 0075-8434
ISSN electronic edition: 1617-9692
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008921367
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 11-02, 11S80, 11S85

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Preface
This book grew out of lectures given at Kyushu University under the support
of the Twenty-first Century COE Program “Development of Dynamical Math-
ematics with High Functionality”(Program Leader: Prof. Mitsuhiro Nakao).
They were meant to serve as a primer to my book [Har5]. Indeed that book
is ver