A Simpler Characterization of Sheffer Polynomials

DOI10.1002/SAPM19949211MaRDI QIDQ4297194zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel E. Loeb, A. Di Bucchianico

Publication date 25 July 1994

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9502215

zbMATH Keywords

cocommutative coalgebrasconvolution identitySheffer polynomialsSheffer sequencesshift- invariant operatorsymmetric functionstranslation operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Umbral calculus (05A40) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Convolution as an integral transform (44A35)

Abstract: We characterize the Sheffer sequences by a single convolution identity ${\displaystyle }$ F^{(y)} p_{n}(x) = sum _{k=0}^{n} p_{k}(x) p_{n-k}(y)${\displaystyle }$ where $F^{(y)}$ is a shift-invariant operator. We then study a generalization of the notion of Sheffer sequences by removing the requirement that $F^{(y)}$ be shift-invariant. All these solutions can then be interpreted as cocommutative coalgebras. We also show the connection with generalized translation operators as introduced by Delsarte. Finally, we apply the same convolution to symmetric functions where we find that the ``Sheffer sequences differ from ordinary full divided power sequences by only a constant factor.

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