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On Tur\'an inequality for ultraspherical polynomials

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2023-12-05 v2

Abstract

We show that the normalised ultraspherical polynomials, Gn(λ)(x)=Cn(λ)(x)/Cn(λ)(1)G_n^{(\lambda)}(x)=C_n^{(\lambda)}(x)/C_n^{(\lambda)}(1), satisfy the following stronger version of Tur\'{a}n inequality, xθ(Gn(λ)(x))2Gn1(λ)(x)Gn+1(λ)(x)0,      x1,|x|^\theta \left(G_n^{(\lambda)}(x)\right)^2 -G_{n-1}^{(\lambda)}(x)G_{n+1}^{(\lambda)}(x) \ge 0 ,\;\;\;|x| \le 1, where θ=4/(2λ)\theta=4/(2-\lambda) if 1/2<λ0-1/2 <\lambda \le 0, and θ=2/(1+2λ)\theta=2/(1+2\lambda) if λ0\lambda \ge 0. We also provide a similar generalisation of Tur\'{a}n inequalities for some symmetric orthogonal polynomials with a finite or infinite support defined by a three term recurrence.

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@article{arxiv.2310.10459,
  title  = {On Tur\'an inequality for ultraspherical polynomials},
  author = {Ilia Krasikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10459},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures. The proof of Case 1 of Lemma 4 was corrected; results are unchanged

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