Conformal inclusions of chiral conformal field theories, or more generally quantum are described in the von Neumann algebraic setting by nets subfactors, possibly with infinite Jones index if one takes non-rational theories into account. With this situation mind, we study a purely subfactor theoretical context certain class braided discrete subfactors an additional commutativity constraint, tha...

This paper investigates the question of when a finite hypergroup with three elements is strong, that is satisfies the condition that its dual signed hypergroup is actually a hypergroup. We classify hermitian hypergroups of order three by weight into two dimensional families and show that the algebraic conditions arising from duality yield four interesting curves in the plane which bound the cha...

In this paper, we derive explicit product formulas and positive convolution structures for three continuous classes of Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric functions of type BC. For specific discrete series of multiplicities these hypergeometric functions occur as the spherical functions of non-compact Grassmann manifolds G/K over one of the (skew) fields F = R,C,H. We write the product formula of thes...

A homomorphism of a hypergroup (H, ◦) is a function f : H → H satisfying f(x ◦ y) ⊆ f(x) ◦ f(y) for all x, y ∈ H. A homomorphism of a hypergroup (H, ◦) is called an epimorphism if f(H) = H. Denote by Hom(H, ◦) and Epi(H, ◦) the set of all homomorphisms and the set of all epimorphisms of a hypergroup (H, ◦), respectively. In this paper, the elements of Hom(Zn, ◦m) and Epi(Zn, ◦m) are characteriz...

We present an explicit product formula for the spherical functions of the compact Gelfand pairs (G,K1) = (SU(p+ q), SU(p)× SU(q)) with p ≥ 2q, which can be considered as the elementary spherical functions of one-dimensional K-type for the Hermitian symmetric spaces G/K with K = S(U(p)× U(q)). Due to results of Heckman, they can be expressed in terms of Heckman-Opdam Jacobi polynomials of type B...

we study topological von neumann regularity and principal von neumann regularity of banach algebras. our main objective is comparing these two types of banach algebras and some other known banach algebras with one another. in particular, we show that the class of topologically von neumann regular banach algebras contains all $c^*$-algebras, group algebras of compact abelian groups and cer...