(1, 1)-\(q\)-coherent pairs (Q430997)

The authors extend the concept of \((1,1)\)-coherent pair of linear functionals to \((1,1)\)-\(q\)-coherent pairs of linear functionals in the following way. They say that a pair of regular linear functionals \((\mathcal{U},\mathcal{V})\) is a \((1,1)\)-\(q\)-coherent pair if their corresponding sequences of monic orthogonal polynomials \(\{P_n(x)\}\) and \(\{R_n(x)\}\) satisfy the relation \[ \frac{D_q P_{n+1}(x)}{[n+1]_q}+ a_n \frac{D_q P_{n}(x)}{[n]_q}= R_n(x)+ b_n R_{n-1}(x), \] with \( a_n \neq 0\) for \(n \geq 1,\) where \([n_q]= \frac{q^n-1}{q-1}, \; 0< q< 1.\) They prove that if \((\mathcal{U},\mathcal{V})\) is a \((1,1)\)-\(q\)-coherent pair of regular linear functionals, then at least one of them must be \(q\)-semiclassical of class at most \(1\) and they are related by \(\sigma(x) \mathcal{U}= \rho(x)\mathcal{V}\), where \(\sigma\) and \(\rho\) are polynomials with \(\deg (\sigma)\leq 3\) and \(\deg(\rho)=1\). Therefore the other functional is \(q\)-semiclassical of class at most \(5\). Finally, they consider the case when \((\mathcal{U},\mathcal{V})\) is a \((1,1)\)-\(q\)-coherent pair of regular linear functionals with \(\mathcal{U}\) \(q\)-classical and they obtain that \(\mathcal{V}\) is \(q\)-semiclassical of class at most \(2\).