THE THEORY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF GROUPS SO0(2, 1) an‎d ISO(2, 1). WIGNER COEFFICIENTS OF THE GROUP SO0(2, 1)

This paper is devoted to the representations of the groups SO(2, 1) and ISO(2, 1). Those groups have an important role in cosmology, elementary particle theory and mathematical physics. Irreducible unitary representations of the principal continuous and supplementary as well as discrete series were obtained. Explicit expressions for spherical functions of the group SO0(2, 1) are obtained through the Gauss hypergeometric functions. The Wigner coefficients of the group SO0(2, 1) were computed and their explicit expressions using the bilateral series were represented. The results could be used to study the non-degenerate representations of the de Sitter group SO(3, 2).