An infinite dimensional umbral calculus (Q1740617)

In mathematics, umbral calculus is described as the study of the class of Sheffer sequences. Umbral calculus provides a formalism for the systematic derivation and classification of almost all classical combinatorial identities for polynomial sequences, along with associated generating functions, expansions, duplication formulas, recurrence relations, inversions, and Rodrigues representation. \par In this paper, the authors aim to develop foundations of umbral calculus on the space $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$ of distributions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, which leads to a general theory of Sheffer polynomial sequences on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$. Then, a sequence of monic polynomials on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$, a polynomial sequence of binomial type, and a Sheffer sequence are defined. Also, equivalent conditions for a sequence of monic polynomials on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$ to be of binomial type or a Sheffer sequence are provided. Moreover, a lifting of a sequence of monic polynomials on $\mathbb{R}$ of binomial type to a polynomial sequence of binomial type on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$, and a lifting of a Sheffer sequence on $\mathbb{R}$ to a Sheffer sequence on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$ are constructed. The authors show that examples of lifted polynomial sequences include the falling and rising factorials on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$, Abel, Hermite, Charlier, and Laguerre polynomials on $\mathfrak{D}^{\prime}$. Some of them have already appeared in diverse branches of infinite dimensional (stochastic) analysis and have played there an important role.