To cite this article: S N M Ruijsenaars (2005)
AbstractFor positive parameters a + and a − the commuting difference operators exp(ia ± d/dz) + exp(2πz/a ∓ ), acting on meromorphic functions f (z), z = x + iy, are formally self-adjoint on the Hilbert space H = L 2 (R, dx). Volkov showed that they admit joint eigenfunctions. We prove that the joint eigenfunctions for positive eigenvalues exp(2πp/a ∓ ), p ∈ R, give rise to a unitary transform, thus associating commuting self-adjoint operators on H to the analytic difference operators.