Wall polynomial

For the unrelated family of orthogonal polynomials sometimes called Wall polynomials, see little q-Laguerre polynomials.

In mathematics, a Wall polynomial is a polynomial studied by Wall (1963) in his work on conjugacy classes in classical groups, and named by Andrews (1984).

References

• Andrews, George E. (1984), "On the Wall polynomials and the L-M-W conjectures", Australian Mathematical Society. Journal. Series A. Pure Mathematics and Statistics, 37 (1): 17–26, doi:10.1017/S1446788700021716, ISSN 0263-6115, MR 0742241
• Wall, G. E. (1963), "On the conjugacy classes in the unitary, symplectic and orthogonal groups", Australian Mathematical Society. Journal. Series A. Pure Mathematics and Statistics, 3: 1–62, doi:10.1017/S1446788700027622, ISSN 0263-6115, MR 0150210