On the Atkin polynomials (Q482094)

The paper is devoted to study the Atkin polynomials, establishing many new properties of this family of polynomials. First the authors present a representation of a scaled version of the Atkin polynomials as a linear combination of associated Jacobi polynomials. As a consequence they deduce an explicit representation of the Atkin polynomials in terms of certain hypergeometric functions and they provide an asymptotic formula and a generating function identity. Finally they give the normalized weight function in terms of hypergeometric functions.