%0 Journal Article %T Some remarks on the construction of quantum symmetric spaces %A Mathijs S. Dijkhuizen %J Mathematics %D 1995 %I arXiv %X We present a general survey of some recent developments regarding the construction of compact quantum symmetric spaces and the analysis of their zonal spherical functions in terms of $q$-orthogonal polynomials. In particular, we define a one-parameter family of two-sided coideals in $\Uq(\gog\gol(n,\CC))$ and express the zonal spherical functions on the corresponding quantum projective spaces as Askey-Wilson polynomials containing two continuous and one discrete parameter. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9512225v1