In 1991-1993 our three-volume book "Representation of Lie Groups and Spe cial Functions" was published. When we started to write that book (in 1983), editors of

This is the first of three major volumes which present a comprehensive treatment of the theory of the main classes of special functions from the point of view o

A standard scheme for a relation between special functions and group representation theory is the following: certain classes of special functions are interprete