(For other notation see Notation for the Special Functions.)
All matrices are of order , unless specified otherwise. All fractional or complex powers are principal values.
| complex variables. | |
| nonnegative integers. | |
| positive integer. | |
| partitional shifted factorial (§35.4(i)). | |
| zero matrix. | |
| identity matrix. | |
| space of all real symmetric matrices. | |
| real symmetric matrices. | |
| trace of . | |
| . | |
| determinant of (except when where it means either determinant or absolute value, depending on the context). | |
| th principal minor of . | |
| th element of . | |
| . | |
| space of positive-definite real symmetric matrices. | |
| eigenvalues of . | |
| spectral norm of . | |
| is positive definite. Similarly, is equivalent. | |
| complex symmetric matrix. | |
| complex-valued function with . | |
| space of orthogonal matrices. | |
| orthogonal matrix. | |
| normalized Haar measure on . | |
| zonal polynomials. |
The main functions treated in this chapter are the multivariate gamma and beta functions, respectively and , and the special functions of matrix argument: Bessel (of the first kind) and (of the second kind) ; confluent hypergeometric (of the first kind) or and (of the second kind) ; Gaussian hypergeometric or ; generalized hypergeometric or .