Relativistic jacobi polynomials (Q4935272)

The authors define a class of relativistic Jacobi polynomials (RJP), \(\{P^{(\alpha,\beta, N)}_n(x)\}^\infty_{n= 0}\), that reduce to Jacobi's polynomials as \(N\to\infty\). They show that the RJP have properties similar to those of the Jacobi polynomials. Among them are orthogonality over the line with respect to a varying measure, a Rodriguez formula and integral representation. The RJP also satisfy a three-term recurrence relation and second-order differential equation of hypergeometric type. These formulae reduce to the corresponding formulae for Jacobi polynomials in the limit.