1. Introduction
Consider two distinct orthonormal bases on the Cartesian plane, denoted by and , where O represents the origin. The composition of the basis transformations and can be expressed as the multiplication of two -orthogonal matrices. This leads to the addition theorem for cosine and sine, as the matrix representing this composition concerning the basis is itself an orthogonal matrix. The kernels of the basis transformation integral operators in infinite-dimensional functional linear spaces involve intricate functions known as special functions in mathematical physics. Since these special functions are eigenfunctions of differential operators which are invariant under the associated Lie groups, we have a direct connection between these special functions, which constitute the kernels, and the representation of the corresponding Lie group.
In this manuscript, we establish several bases within a functional linear space in
Section 3, analyze the kernels of basis transformation operators in
Section 4, and derive integral relationships pertaining to specific instances of confluent hypergeometric functions
in
Section 5. These functions include Bessel
, Hankel
, and
, Whittaker
, Macdonald
, and Coulomb
functions. In [
1,
2], we used another approach investigating the kernels of the restriction of representation integral operators to certain one-parameter groups expressed in various ‘direct’ or ‘mixed’ bases, thereby unveiling additional integral relationships. Let us remember that a group-theoretical approach to classical Bessel functions (in a wide sense) had been considered in monographs [
3,
4] and to some their multi-variable or multi-index analogues and generalizations have been presented, for example, in [
5,
6,
7].
2. The Group , Algebra , and Space
Let
a be an arbitrary square matrix. Let us call a matrix
b of the same size an
a-matrix if
, where
represents the transpose of the matrix. For the case
, we immediately obtain
. By selecting different matrices denoted as
a, we can derive diverse sets of well-known matrix classes: orthogonal (
), symplectic, etc. The equalities
indicate that the set of
a-matrices form a subgroup
within the general linear group of order
n, where
represents the dimensions of matrix
a. Let the symbol
G represent the intersection of
and the special linear subgroup
. From the given definition, it can be deduced that for any
, the following equations hold:
Here, is Kronecker delta: 0 if ; 1 if .
It is demonstrable [
8] that the expression for matrix
b is given by:
where
, matrix
is orthogonal and
ia a positive–definite matrix. The matrix
b relies on
and independent parameters of
and
A (or
B), therefore being defined by three parameters. From Equation (
3) (see [
8]), it is deduced that the determinant of
C equals
. This implies that the mapping
defined by the formula
is a group epimorphism. Both cosets of the normal divisor
represent connected components in
G.
Let
be the matrix of the circle rotation in the plane
through angle
:
Let
and
denote matrices of hyperbolic rotations in the planes
and
, respectively, that is
Obviously,
. The vectors
,
, and
constitute a basis
E for the tangent space of the group
, evaluated at the point
. The commuting relations of the corresponding Lie algebra
can be expressed as follows:
The matrices (for each i) constitute a subgroup within . It is evident that the group G acts transitively on both the cone and the hyperboloid .
Lemma 1. .
Proof. Let
be the stabilizer of the point
. Given that for any
, the equality
holds, based on (
1) and (
2), we can express
g as:
where
is an orthogonal matrix. Thus,
. Let
be the bijective mapping
, such that
, where
y is the image of
for any transformation belonging to the coset
. If
,
and
, then
. Because
g relies on three parameters and
is a one-parameter subgroup, the generator
of the coset
ought to be contingent upon two parameters. Let
. Let us show that
can be written in the form
:
Therefore, . The second equality of the present lemma can be demonstrated using the same method. □
We denote by the subset of the cone that comprises points x, where .
Lemma 2. The semicone is invariant under the transformations of the group .
Proof. Based on Lemma 1, it is enough to confirm for
and
. For
we have
and
, therefore,
. Since
we find that
. Given that
where
, we can derive that
. This implies that
. □
Lemma 3. The group acts transitively on the semicone .
Proof. We denote by
the circle
belonging to
. Introducing polar coordinates on
, we write any point
in the form
where
. Since
and
in view of
the transformation
belongs to
.
Let
. It has been demonstrated that there exists a transformation denoted as
, such that when applied, it satisfies the condition
. We thus have the equality
By substituting (
7) into (
6), the resultant equation becomes
. □
Let f be a function defined on the semicone . Let us call this function infinitely differentiable, if the derivative exists at any point of and for any nonnegative integers , , such that . Let . We call a function f-homogeneous if . Given , this implies that .
Let represent the linear space comprising -homogeneous infinitely differentiable functions on . It can be readily verified that the mapping , defined as , constitutes an automorphism of . Moreover, the function , where , forms a representation of .
3. Construction of Bases
For each vector belonging to the above basis
E of tangent algebra
, we define the corresponding infinitesimal operator:
In this context and throughout, the symbol
denotes the purely imaginary number, which is the square root of
. It is easy to find that
In polar coordinates on
we have
. Let
be an eigenfunction of the operator
with respect to the eigenfunction
and, in addition, a restriction of
to
. From the equation
we have
. From the condition that
, we can deduce
, implying that
. By introducing
, we derive the basis within the space of function restrictions from
to
, comprising a set of functions
. Considering the
-homogeneity property for any
:
therefore, the functions
form the basis
in the space
.
We denote the hyperbola
on
by symbol
. Let
. In hyperbolic coordinates
on
, where
, we have
. Let
be an eigenfunction of
with respect to value
and a restriction of
to
. From the equality
we have
, therefore,
,
, form a basis in the space of function restrictions from
to
.
Let us consider the value of
f at the point
such that
. In case of
we have
where
is the restriction to
. In case of
we can write
Using the generalized functions [
9],
we obtain
(double signs ± are consistently employed in same order here and in other instances). This implies that functions
form a basis
in the space
.
By analogy, defining hyperbolas
, we obtain a basis
in
, consisting of functions
related to the contour
on the semicone
.
Let us define the linear subspaces
and
in
. As per (
8), it follows that
, where
In view of relations (
8), the dimension of maximal commutative subalgebra
in
is equal to 1. Letting
, we get the following matrix of the adjoint operator
in the above basis
E:
Finding the eigenvalues of the characteristic polynomial of this matrix, we obtain
where the root linear subspace
consists of a zero vector and all eigenvectors of the operator
related to the value
j. This implies that the maximal nilpotent subalgebra
in
can be defined by the equality
, that is,
.
Let us define the subgroup
in
. It consists of matrices
and acts transitively on the intersection of the semicone
and the plane
. We denote this parabola by
.
Letting
, by analogy, we obtain
and find its exponential image
consisting of matrices
We denote by the intersection of the semicone and plane . This parabola is a homogeneous space of the subgroup .
The infinitesimal operator associated with the generator within a one-dimensional subalgebra exhibits commutativity with infinitesimal operators associated with all vectors within . Thus, it qualifies as a Casimir operator linked to the reduction .
In horospherical coordinates
on the parabola
, where
, we have
.
Let us denote by an eigenfunction of the operator with the eigenvalue . Suppose that is the restriction of function to parabola . From the equation we obtain , where . It gives the basis in the space of function restrictions from to , which consists of functions .
For any point
where
, considering
-homogeneity and utilizing Formula (
5), we derive
. Consequently,
Therefore, the functions
where
, form a basis
in
.
By analogy, finding eigenfunctions of the operator
, which corresponds to the reduction
, we obtain a basis
in
, consisting of functions
where
.
Upon substituting with , the resultant is the linear space denoted as . Each has its counterpart in as . The bases – are assumed to represent the equivalents of the bases –.