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On Gegenbauer polynomials and Wronskian determinants of trigonometric functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-01-22 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis Probability

Abstract

M. E. Larsen evaluated the Wronskian determinant of functions {sin(mx)}1mn\{\sin(mx)\}_{1\le m \le n}. We generalize this result and compute the Wronskian of {sin(mx)}1mn1{sin((k+n)x}\{\sin(mx)\}_{1\le m \le n-1}\cup \{\sin((k+n)x\} . We show that this determinant can be expressed in terms of Gegenbauer orthogonal polynomials and we give two proofs of this result: a direct proof using recurrence relations and a less direct (but, possibly, more instructive) proof based on Darboux-Crum transformations.

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@article{arxiv.2501.11092,
  title  = {On Gegenbauer polynomials and Wronskian determinants of trigonometric functions},
  author = {Minjian Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11092},
  year   = {2025}
}