On Radon hypergeometric functions on the Grassmannian manifold

Abstract

We give a definition of Radon hypergeometric function (Radon HGF) of confluent and nonconfluent type, which is a function on the Grassmannian Gr(m,nr) obtained as a Radon transform of a character of the universal covering group of H_{\lambda}\subset GL(nr) specified by a partition \lambda of n, where H_{(1,\dots,1)}\simeq(GL(r))^{n}. When r=1, the Radon HGF reduces to the Gelfand HGF on the Grassmannian. We give a system of differential equations satisfied by the Radon HGF and show that the Hermitian matrix integral analogues of Gauss HGF and its confluent family: Kummer, Bessel, Hermite-Weber and Airy function, are obtained in a unified manner as the Radon HGF on Gr(2r,4r) corresponding to the partitions (1,1,1,1), (2,1,1), (2,2), (3,1) and (4), respectively.