A general method to find special functions that interpolate Appell polynomials, with examples (Q6542908)

An Appell sequence \(\{P_n(x)\}_{n=0}^\infty\) is defined formally by an exponential generating function of the form \N\[ \NG(x,t):=A(t)e^{xt}=\sum_{n=0}^\infty P_n(x)\frac{t^n}{n!}, \N\]\Nwhere \(x, t\) are indeterminates and \(A(t)\) is a formal power series. Obviously, \(P_n(x)\) is a polynomial of the form \N\[\NP_n(x)=A(0)x^n + \cdots. \N\]\NThus, the assumption \(A(0)\neq 0\) means that \(P_n(x)\) has degree \(n\).\N\NIn a series of recent papers [\textit{L. M. Navas} et al., J. Math. Anal. Appl. 459, No. 1, 419--436 (2018; Zbl 1434.11068); J. Math. Anal. Appl. 476, No. 2, 836--850 (2019; Zbl 1484.11088); J. Math. Anal. Appl. 493, No. 2, Article ID 124541, 18 p. (2021; Zbl 1455.30003)], the second author and his co-authors gave a method to build transcendental functions whose values at the negative integers are the Appell polynomials \(P_n(x)\), requiring only a few easy conditions on the function \(A(t)\). This method uses a slight modification of the Mellin transform of the generating function \(G(x, -t)\) and conditions on \(A(t)\) that ensure the integral defining the transform converges.\N\NHowever, although these conditions on \(A(t)\) are rather general, one of them requires that \(A(-t)\) be continuous on \([0,+\infty)\), thus excluding complex analytic functions \(A(-t)\) with singularities on \((0,+\infty)\); indeed, the Mellin transform does not converge in this case. The purpose of this paper is to extend these kinds of results by allowing the existence of isolated singularities (usually, a pole), and to give some additional examples.