IJPAM: Volume 62, No. 3 (2010)

AN EXTREMUM PROPERTY OF WHITTAKER FUNCTIONS

C.J. Mozzochi
P.O. Box 1424
Princeton, NJ 08542, USA
e-mail: cjm@ix.netcom.com


Abstract.We establish an extremum property for Whittaker functions for $\GL(3,\dbR)$, which is not unexpected for a powerful kernel. The proof extends in a natural way for Whittaker functions on $\GL(n,\dbR)$.

Received: June 10, 2010

AMS Subject Classification: 11F03, 11F11, 11F12, 11F72

Key Words and Phrases: eigenvalues, Laplacian

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2010
Volume: 62
Issue: 3