General linearization formulae for products of continuous hypergeometric-type polynomials (Q4485368)

The authors give explicit formulas for the coefficients \(g_{nmk}\) in the relation \[ p_n(x)q_m(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{n+m}g_{nmk}y_k(x), \] where \((p_n),(q_m),\) and \((y_k)\) are (different) hypergeometric families of polynomials (i.e. they can be reduced to the classical orthogonal polynomials or to the Bessel polynomials). The main tools are explicit representations for those polynomials, Pearson's equation and the Rodrigues formula. The formulae are given in terms of coefficients of the corresponding differential equations.