Integrable discrete time chains for the Frobenius-Stickelberger-Thiele polynomials (Q2472471)

Three term recurrence relations of various forms play a central role in the description of the simplest discrete integrable systems via the discrete Lax pair formalism. In particular, the three term recurrence relation for orthogonal polynomials and the associated Christoffel-Geronimus spectral transformations generate the discrete time Toda chain. In this article the authors introduce the notion of Frobenius-Stickelberger-Thiele polynomials and describe their properties. Further they introduce the Christoffel and Geronimus type transformations for these FST-polynomials and derive the discrete time chain generated by them and related to the generalized algorithm. Relations of FST-polynomials to the Padé interpolation problem and general symmetric biorthogonal rational functions are discussed.