On special orthogonal eigenfunctions and eigenfunction expansions

DOI10.1080/0020739960270401MaRDI QIDQ4359670zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Phillips

Publication date 4 May 1998

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739960270401

zbMATH Keywords

completenesseigenfunctionsLegendre polynomialssecond order differential equationTuran's inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10)

Review text

The system of functions \(\{\varphi_{n,k} \}_{n=1}^\infty\), \(k=0,1,\dots\), given by \[ \varphi_{n,k}(x):= P_k(x) P_{n+1}(x)- P_n(x)P_{k+1}(x), \qquad x\in (-1,1), \] where \(P_n\) are the Legendre polynomials on the interval \((-1,1)\), is the system of eigenfunctions of a second order differential equation which is not of Sturm-Liouville type. It is shown that this theorem is orthogonal with respect to a certain weight function and complete in a suitable Hilbert space.

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