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A few remarks on orthogonal polynomials

Analysis of PDEs 2014-12-30 v4

Abstract

Knowing a sequence of moments of a given, infinitely supported, distribution we obtain quickly: coefficients of the power series expansion of monic polynomials {pn}n0\left\{ p_{n}\right\} _{n\geq 0} that are orthogonal with respect to this distribution, coefficients of expansion of xnx^{n} in the series of pj,p_{j}, jnj\leq n, two sequences of coefficients of the 3-term recurrence of the family of {pn}n0\left\{ p_{n}\right\} _{n\geq 0}, the so called "linearization coefficients" i.e. coefficients of expansion of % p_{n}p_{m} in the series of pj,p_{j}, jm+n.j\leq m+n.\newline Conversely, assuming knowledge of the two sequences of coefficients of the 3-term recurrence of a given family of orthogonal polynomials {pn}n0,\left\{ p_{n}\right\} _{n\geq 0}, we express with their help: coefficients of the power series expansion of pnp_{n}, coefficients of expansion of xnx^{n} in the series of pj,p_{j}, jn,j\leq n, moments of the distribution that makes polynomials {pn}n0\left\{ p_{n}\right\} _{n\geq 0} orthogonal. \newline Further having two different families of orthogonal polynomials {pn}n0\left\{ p_{n}\right\} _{n\geq 0} and {qn}n0\left\{ q_{n}\right\} _{n\geq 0} and knowing for each of them sequences of the 3-term recurrences, we give sequence of the so called "connection coefficients" between these two families of polynomials. That is coefficients of the expansions of pnp_{n} in the series of qj,q_{j}, jn.j\leq n.\newline We are able to do all this due to special approach in which we treat vector of orthogonal polynomials {pj(x))}j=0n\left\{ p_{j}\left( x)\right) \right\} _{j=0}^{n} as a linear transformation of the vector {xj}j=0n\left\{ x^{j}\right\} _{j=0}^{n} by some lower triangular (n+1)×(n+1)(n+1)\times (n+1) matrix Πn.\mathbf{\Pi }_{n}.

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@article{arxiv.1303.0627,
  title  = {A few remarks on orthogonal polynomials},
  author = {Paweł J. Szabłowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0627},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages

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