On the structure and probabilistic interpretation of Askey-Wilson densities and polynomials with complex parameters (Q544015)

The author treats some properties of the Askey-Wilson polynomials \[ D_n(x\mid a,b,c,d,q)={(ab,ac,ad)_n\over a^n (abcdq^{-n})_n}\,{}_4\phi_3 \left.\left(\begin{matrix} q^{-n}, abcdq^{n-1}, ae^{i\theta}, ae^{-i\theta}\cr ab, ac, ad, q\end{matrix} \right|q,q\right) \] with \[ {}_r\phi_s\left.\left(\begin{matrix} a_1, \dots , a_r\cr b_1,\dots,b_s,q \end{matrix}\right|q,y\right)=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\, {(a_1,\dots,a_r)_k\over (b_1,\dots,b_s,q)_k}\,(-1)^{s+1-r}q^{(s+1-r) {k\choose 2}}y^k. \] The main results are \textbf{A.} \(D_n(x\mid a,b,c,d,q)\) given as a double sum in terms of \(Q_i(x\mid a,b,q)Q_{j-i}(x\mid c,d,q)\) with coefficients, \textbf{B.} \(A_n(x\mid y,\rho_1,z,\rho_2,q)=D_n(x\sqrt{1-q}/2\mid a,b,c,d,q)\) given as a double sum in terms of \(P_i(x\mid y,\rho_1,q)P_{j-i}(x\mid z,\rho_2,q)\) with coefficients, \textbf{C.} \(A_n(x\mid y,\rho_1,z,\rho_2,q)=D_n(x\sqrt{1-q}/2\mid a,b,c,d,q)\) given as a double sum in terms of \(P_{n-m}(x\mid z,\rho_2,q)P_m(y\mid x,\rho_1,q)\) with coefficients, where \[ a={\sqrt{1-q}\over 2}\rho_1(y-i\sqrt{{4\over 1-q}}-y^2),\quad b={\sqrt{1-q}\over 2}\rho_1(y+i\sqrt{{4\over 1-q}}-y^2), \] \[ c={\sqrt{1-q}\over 2}\rho_2(z-i\sqrt{{4\over 1-q}}-z^2),\quad d={\sqrt{1-q}\over 2}\rho_2(z+i\sqrt{{4\over 1-q}}-z^2), \] with \(|\rho_1|,|\rho_2|<1\). Furthermore, \(Q_n(x\mid a,b,q)\) is the Al-Salam polynomial and \[ \begin{multlined} P_n(x\mid y,\rho,q)\\ =Q_n\left(x\sqrt{1-q}/2\mid {\sqrt{1-q}\over 2}\rho (y-i\sqrt{{4\over 1-q}}-y^2), {\sqrt{1-q}\over 2}\rho (y+i\sqrt{{4\over 1-q}}-y^2),q\right).\end{multlined} \] A notationally very intricate paper.