Solving connection and linearization problems within the Askey scheme and its \(q\)-analogue via inversion formulas (Q5946589)

Given a sequence of terminating basic hypergeometric series of the form \[ F_k(x) = {}_r\phi_s\left(\left. {q^{-k},a_2,\ldots, a_r \atop b_1,\ldots, b_s} \right|q; qx \right) \;\text{or} _r\phi_s\left(\left. {q^{-k},a_2q^k,a_3,\ldots, a_r \atop b_1,\ldots, b_s} \right|q; qx \right), \] the authors use an identity of Verma to expand \(x^n\) in terms of these polynomials. They then show how this result can be used to obtain connection coefficients and linearization coefficients for any of the orthogonal polynomials or their \(q\)-analogs within the Askey scheme.