English

Multiple orthogonal polynomials, $d$-orthogonal polynomials, production matrices, and branched continued fractions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-07-09 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

I analyze an unexpected connection between multiple orthogonal polynomials, dd-orthogonal polynomials, production matrices and branched continued fractions. This work can be viewed as a partial extension of Viennot's combinatorial theory of orthogonal polynomials to the case where the production matrix is lower-Hessenberg but is not necessarily tridiagonal.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2204.11528,
  title  = {Multiple orthogonal polynomials, $d$-orthogonal polynomials, production matrices, and branched continued fractions},
  author = {Alan D. Sokal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11528},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

41 pages, LaTeX2e. Version 2 corrects a few small typos, uses the term "coefficient matrix" instead of "representing matrix" for a sequence of monic polynomials, and adds two references. To be published in the Transactions of the AMS