The Annihilating Ideal of the Fisher Integral

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a system of differential equations for the Fisher integral on the special orthogonal group. Especially, we explicitly give a set of linear differential operators which generates the annihilating ideal of the Fisher integral, and we prove that the annihilating ideal is a maximal left ideal of the ring of differential operators with polynomial coefficients. Our proof is given by a discussion concerned with an annihilating ideal of a Schwartz distribution associated with the Haar measure on the special orthogonal group. We also give differential operators annihilating the Fisher integral for the diagonal matrix by a new approach.