Lectures on \(q\)-orthogonal polynomials (Q2760155)

The author has employed a novel and significant procedure to the basic hypergeometric functions using the Askey-Wilson divided difference operators, the q-difference operator and the identity theorem for analytic functions. He derives orthogonality relations for the Askey-Wilson polynomials using an attachment procedure, Al-Salam-Chihara polynomials and the bootstrap method he developed earlier [\textit{C. Berg}, and \textit{M. E. H. Ismail}, Can. J. Math. 48, No. 1, 43-63 (1996; Zbl 0858.33015)]. The continuous q-ultraspherical and q-Hermite polynomials are analysed from a different angle. An application to the connection coefficients of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities is given.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0969.00053].