Abstract:
An Olshanski spherical pair $(G,K)$ is the inductive limit of a sequence of Gelfand pairs $(G(n),K(n))$. A natural question arises: how a spherical function for $(G,K)$ can be obtained as limit of spherical functions for $(G(n),K(n))$. In this paper we consider a sequence of Gelfand pairs $(G(n),K(n))$ related to the Heisenberg group.
Key words and phrases:Heisenberg group, spherical function, Jack polynomial, Laguerre polynomial.