On E-functions of Semisimple Lie Groups

Abstract

We develop and describe continuous and discrete transforms of class functions on a compact semisimple, but not simple, Lie group $G$ as their expansions into series of special functions that are invariant under the action of the even subgroup of the Weyl group of $G$. We distinguish two cases of even Weyl groups -- one is the direct product of even Weyl groups of simple components of $G$, the second is the full even Weyl group of $G$. The problem is rather simple in two dimensions. It is much richer in dimensions greater than two -- we describe in detail $E-$transforms of semisimple Lie groups of rank 3.