Convergent expansions and bounded operators in the umbral calculus (Q805618)

We study some analytic properties of certain sequences of special functions called Sheffer sequences. Many classical sequences, such as factorial, Hermite, Bernoulli, Laguerre and Stirling polynomials, are Sheffer sequences. Our study involves extensions to spaces of entire functions of the umbral methods developed by Roman, Rota and their collaborators to study the space of polynomials C[x]. We work out several examples of our theory for specific Sheffer sequences.