Representations of the Dynamical Affine Quantum Group   $U_{q,x}(\widehat{sl_2})=U_{q,\lambda}(\widehat{sl_2})$ and Hypergeometric   Functions
  The representation theory of the Hopf algebroid $U_{q,x}(\widehat{sl_2})=U_{q,\lambda}(\widehat{sl_2})$ is initiated and it is established that the intertwiner between the tensor products of dynamical evaluation modules is a well-poised balanced $_{10}W_9$ symbol, confirming a conjecture of Konno, that the degeneration of the elliptic $_{12}V_{11}$ series to $_{10}W_9$ can be proven based on the representation theory of $U_{q,x}(\widehat{sl_2})$, the degeneration of the elliptic algebra $U_{q,p}(\widehat{sl_2})$ as $p \to 0$. 
Bharath Narayanan
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