Non-classical orthogonality relations for big and little \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials (Q2268560)

The paper is devoted to obtain non-classical orthogonality relations for big and little \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials. The classical monic \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials \(P_n(.;a,b,c;q)\) are defined for \(0<a,b<q^{-1}\) and \(c<0\) and the authors give an extension of this system by allowing the parameters \(a\) and \(c\) to be arbitrary real numbers, with the restriction on \(b\) in the form \(ab\notin \{q^{-2},q^{-3w},\cdots\}\). They also define a non-standard inner product which provides the orthogonality of the generalized family when the first parameter takes values for which Favard's theorem does not work. A similar study is done for the monic little \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials \(\{p_n(.;a,b | q)\}\) where the classical values \(0<a,b <q^{-1}\) are extended to \(a \in \mathbb{R}\) and \(ab\notin \{q^{-2},q^{-3w},\cdots\}\). A nonstandard orthogonality relation for this generalized family is also obtained. When the second parameter of the families of big and little \(q\)-Jacobi polynomials vanishes, then the families of big and little \(q\)-Laguerre polynomials are obtained. Hence, similar results are obtained for these new families.