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In search of higher Bochner theorem

Mathematical Physics 2024-08-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

We initiate the study of a natural generalisation of the classical Bochner-Krall problem asking which linear ordinary differential operators possess sequences of eigenpolynomials satisfying linear recurrence relations of finite length; the classical case corresponds to the 3-term recurrence relations with real coefficients subject to some extra restrictions. We formulate a general conjecture and prove it in the first non-trivial case of operators of order 3.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01558,
  title  = {In search of higher Bochner theorem},
  author = {Emil Horozov and Boris Shapiro and Milos Tater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01558},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Substantially revised and shortened version. Content of Sections 4 and 5 simplified. Computational formulas in Appendix ii corrected. To appear in JAT