2005-09-02

F. Alberto Grünbaum, University of California, Berkeley

Matrix valued orthogonal polynomials arising from representations of SU(N)

There is a classical and well known connection between Jacobi polynomials and representations of compact Lie groups. I will discuss joint work with I. Pacharoni and J. Tirao that gives rise to matrix valued orthogonal polynomials in the context of representation theory.