Two-dimensional imaginary lobachevsky space. Separation of variables and contractions

Abstract

The In�n�-Wigner contraction from the SO(2, 1) group to the E(1, 1) group is used to relate the separation of variables in Laplace-Beltrami (Helmholtz) equations for the corresponding two-dimensional homogeneous spaces: two-dimensional one sheeted hyperboloid and two-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space. Here we consider the contraction limits of some basis functions for the subgroup coordinates only. � 2011 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.