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| author | Crampe, Nicolas Gaboriaud, Julien d'Andecy, Loïc Poulain Vinet, Luc |
| author_facet | Crampe, Nicolas Gaboriaud, Julien d'Andecy, Loïc Poulain Vinet, Luc |
| contents | We compute the matrix elements of $SO(3)$ in any finite-dimensional irreducible representation of $sl_3$. They are expressed in terms of a double sum of products of Krawtchouk and Racah polynomials which generalize the Griffiths-Krawtchouk polynomials. Their recurrence and difference relations are obtained as byproducts of our construction. The proof is based on the decomposition of a general three-dimensional rotation in terms of elementary planar rotations and a transition between two embeddings of $sl_2$ in $sl_3$. The former is related to monovariate Krawtchouk polynomials and the latter, to monovariate Racah polynomials. The appearance of Racah polynomials in this context is algebraically explained by showing that the two $sl_2$ Casimir elements related to the two embeddings of $sl_2$ in $sl_3$ obey the Racah algebra relations. We also show that these two elements generate the centralizer in $U(sl_3)$ of the Cartan subalgebra and its complete algebraic description is given. |
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| spellingShingle | Matrix elements of $SO(3)$ in $sl_3$ representations as bispectral multivariate functions Crampe, Nicolas Gaboriaud, Julien d'Andecy, Loïc Poulain Vinet, Luc Representation Theory Mathematical Physics We compute the matrix elements of $SO(3)$ in any finite-dimensional irreducible representation of $sl_3$. They are expressed in terms of a double sum of products of Krawtchouk and Racah polynomials which generalize the Griffiths-Krawtchouk polynomials. Their recurrence and difference relations are obtained as byproducts of our construction. The proof is based on the decomposition of a general three-dimensional rotation in terms of elementary planar rotations and a transition between two embeddings of $sl_2$ in $sl_3$. The former is related to monovariate Krawtchouk polynomials and the latter, to monovariate Racah polynomials. The appearance of Racah polynomials in this context is algebraically explained by showing that the two $sl_2$ Casimir elements related to the two embeddings of $sl_2$ in $sl_3$ obey the Racah algebra relations. We also show that these two elements generate the centralizer in $U(sl_3)$ of the Cartan subalgebra and its complete algebraic description is given. |
| title | Matrix elements of $SO(3)$ in $sl_3$ representations as bispectral multivariate functions |
| topic | Representation Theory Mathematical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12809 |