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Elliptic 6j-symbols first appeared in connection with solvable models of statistical mechanics. They include many interesting limit cases, such as quantum 6j-symbols (or q-Racah polynomials) and Wilson’s biorthogonal 10 W 9 functions. We give an elementary construction of elliptic 6j-symbols, which immediately implies several of their main properties. As a consequence, we obtain a new algebraic interpretation of elliptic 6j-symbols in terms of Sklyanin algebra representations.
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2000 Mathematics Subject Classification Primary—33D45, 33D80, 82B23
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Rosengren, H. An elementary approach to 6j-symbols (classical, quantum, rational, trigonometric, and elliptic). Ramanujan J 13, 131–166 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-006-0245-1
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