- Heun's equation
- q-analog
- Symmetries
- See also
- References
In mathematics, the local Heun function Hℓ(a,q;α,β,γ,δ;z) {{harvs|authorlink=Karl Heun|first=Karl L. W. |last=Heun|year=1889}} is the solution of Heun's differential equation that is holomorphic and 1 at the singular point z = 0. The local Heun function is called a Heun function, denoted Hf, if it is also regular at z = 1, and is called a Heun polynomial, denoted Hp, if it is regular at all three finite singular points z = 0, 1, a.
Heun's equation
Heun's equation is a second-order linear ordinary differential equation (ODE) of the form
The condition 
is needed to ensure regularity of the point at ∞.
The complex number q is called the accessory parameter. Heun's equation has four regular singular points: 0, 1, a and ∞ with exponents (0, 1 − γ), (0, 1 − δ), (0, 1 − ϵ), and (α, β). Every second-order linear ODE on the extended complex plane with at most four regular singular points, such as the Lamé equation or the hypergeometric differential equation, can be transformed into this equation by a change of variable.
q-analog
The q-analog of Heun's equation has been discovered by {{harvs|txt|authorlink=Wolfgang Hahn|last=Hahn|year=1971}} and studied by {{harvtxt|Takemura|2017}}.
Symmetries
Heun's equation has a group of symmetries of order 192, isomorphic to the Coxeter group of the Coxeter diagram D4, analogous to the 24 symmetries of the hypergeometric differential equations obtained by Kummer.
The symmetries fixing the local Heun function form a group of order 24 isomorphic to the symmetric group on 4 points, so there are 192/24 = 8 = 2 × 4 essentially different solutions given by acting on the local Heun function by these symmetries, which give solutions for each of the 2 exponents for each of the 4 singular points. The complete list of 192 symmetries was given by {{harvtxt|Maier|2007}} using machine calculation. Several previous attempts by various authors to list these by hand contained many errors and omissions; for example, most of the 48 local solutions listed by Heun contain serious errors.
See also
- Heine–Stieltjes polynomials, a generalization of Heun polynomials.
References
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- Hahn W.(1971) On linear geometric difference equations with accessory parameters.Funkcial. Ekvac., 14, 73–78
- {{Citation|last=Takemura|first= K. |year=2017|title=Degenerations of Ruijsenaars–van Diejen operator and q-Painlevé equations|journal=Journal of Integrable Systems|volume=2|issue=1|url=https://academic.oup.com/integrablesystems/article/4159873|doi= 10.1093/integr/xyx008 |arxiv=1608.07265}}.
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