ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Representations of Jordan algebras and special functions

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Degli Studi di Milano, via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the action of a special formally real Jordan algebra U on an Euclidean space E, with the decomposition of E under this action and with an application of this decomposition to the study of Bessel functions on the self-adjoint homogeneous cone associated to U.

Keywords

representations, Jordan algebras, Bessel functions

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Pages:
257-266
Main language of publication
English
Received
1989-05-08
Published
1991
Exact and natural sciences