Dunkl approach to slice regular functions

Abstract In this paper, we establish a connection between Dunkl analysis and slice analysis in the setting of Clifford algebras. Specifically, we show that a Clifford algebra-valued function is slice if, and only if, it belongs to the kernel of the Dunkl-spherical Dirac operator and that a slice function is slice regular if, and only if, it lies in the kernel of the Dunkl-Cauchy-Riemann operator for a suitable parameter. Based on this correspondence and the inverse Dunkl intertwining operator, we propose a new method to construct a family of classical monogenic functions from a given holomorphic function, in the spirit of Fueter’s theorem.