Extensions of discrete classical orthogonal polynomials beyond the orthogonality (Q1006006)

The authors extend definition of the discrete classical orthogonal polynomials to the case of all possible degrees and prove that main properties of the Krawtchouk, Hahn, dual Hahn and Rocah polynomials hold for new (extended) families except the orthogonality. Moreover they find a \(\Delta\)-Sobolev orthogonality of the form \(\langle f,g\rangle_S=\langle{\mathbf u}_0,fg\rangle+\langle {\mathbf u}_1,(\Delta^Mf)(\Delta^Mg)\rangle\) for them, where \(\mathbf u_0\) and \(\mathbf u_1\) are certain classical functionals.