Exceptional Charlier and Hermite orthogonal polynomials (Q2447626)

The so-called exceptional orthogonal polynomials have been firstly considered by Gómez-Ullate, Kamran, and Milson in a series of papers and its study has been know an increasing interest after the works of Quesne where the connection with exactly solvable models in Quantum Mechanics was stablished. The study of the exceptional orthogonal polynomials was concentrated on the so-called continuous case (extensions of the classical orthogonal polynomials of Hermite, Laguerre and Jacobi) and some few examples related to the basic hypergeometric polynomials. In this study remained a gap concerning the study of the discrete case, i.e., the extension of the Meixner, Charlier, Kravchuk and Hahn polynomials. In the present paper the author filled that gap, showing that it is possible to construct the exceptional discrete polynomials, but not only this. He discovered a very interesting connection between the Casorati determinants of Charlier polynomials, the duality property of orthogonal polynomials and the Krall discrete orthogonal polynomials. Namely, the exceptional polynomials are the duals of the Krall discrete orthogonal polynomials (very recently studied by the same author). Finally, by taking appropriate limits he obtained several results on the exceptional Hermite polynomials.