%0 Journal Article %T Symmetric q-Bessel functions %A Giuseppe Dattoli %A Amalia Torre %J Le Matematiche %D 1996 %I University of Catania %X q analog of bessel functions, symmetric under the interchange of q and q^ 1 are introduced. The definition is based on the generating function realized as product of symmetric q-exponential functions with appropriate arguments. Symmetric q-Bessel function are shown to satisfy various identities as well as second-order q-differential equations, which in the limit q ¡ú 1 reproduce those obeyed by the usual cylindrical Bessel functions. A brief discussion on the possible algebraic setting for symmetric q-Bessel functions is also provided. %U http://www.dmi.unict.it/ojs/index.php/lematematiche/article/view/432