AbstractIn this note, a new proof for the positivity of Dunkl’s intertwining operator in thecrystallographic case is given. It is based on an asymptotic relationship between theOpdam-Cherednik kernel and the Dunkl kernel as recently observed by M. de Jeu, andon positivity results of S. Sahi for the Heckman-Opdam polynomials and their non-symmetric counterparts. 2000 AMS Subject Classification: 33C52, 33C67. 1 Introduction In [R], it was proven that Dunkl’s intertwining operator between the rational Dunkl operatorsfor a fixed finite reflection group and nonnegative multiplicity function is positive. As aconsequence we obtained an abstract Harish-Chandra type integral representation for theDunkl kernel, the image of the usual exponential kernel under the intertwiner. The proofwas based on methods from the theory of operator semigroups and a rank-one reduction.In the present note, we give a new, completely different proof of these results under theonly additional assumption that the underlying reflection group has to be crystallographic.In contrast to the proof of [R], where precise information on the supports of the representingmeasures could only be obtained by going back to estimates of the kernel from [J1], thisinformation is now directly obtained. Our new approach relies first on an asymptotic rela-tionship between the Opdam-Cherednik kernel and the Dunkl kernel as recently observed byde Jeu [J2], and second on positivity results of Sahi [S] for the Heckman-Opdam polynomialsand their non-symmetric counterparts.