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Discrete analogues of Macdonald-Mehta integrals

Combinatorics 2016-10-18 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider discretisations of the Macdonald--Mehta integrals from the theory of finite reflection groups. For the classical groups, Ar1\mathrm{A}_{r-1}, Br\mathrm{B}_r and Dr\mathrm{D}_r, we provide closed-form evaluations in those cases for which the Weyl denominators featuring in the summands have exponents 11 and 22. Our proofs for the exponent-11 cases rely on identities for classical group characters, while most of the formulas for the exponent-22 cases are derived from a transformation formula for elliptic hypergeometric series for the root system BCr\mathrm{BC}_r. As a byproduct of our results, we obtain closed-form product formulas for the (ordinary and signed) enumeration of orthogonal and symplectic tableaux contained in a box.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06536,
  title  = {Discrete analogues of Macdonald-Mehta integrals},
  author = {Richard P. Brent and Christian Krattenthaler and S. Ole Warnaar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06536},
  year   = {2016}
}

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50 pages