Orthogonal functions satisfying a second-order differential equation.

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00599-XMaRDI QIDQ1874166zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 22 May 2003

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00599-X

zbMATH Keywords

Differential equationOrthogonal functionsOrthogonality of derivatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Other special orthogonal polynomials and functions (33C47) General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05)

Review text

The authors consider second-order linear differential equations of the form \[ \alpha(x) y+ \beta(x)y'+ [\sigma(x)+ \lambda_n\tau(x)] y= f_n(x),\quad n= 0,1,\dots,\tag{\(*\)} \] where \(\alpha(x)\), \(\beta(x)\), \(\sigma(x)\) and \(f_n(x)\) are real-valued functions on the real axis while \(\lambda_n\) stand for the eigenvalue parameters. Their main aim is to give a necessary and sufficient condition in order for a sequence of solutions to \((*)\), say \(\{\varphi_n\}^\infty_{n=0}\), to constitute a system of orthogonal functions with respect to certain weight distribution \(w(x)\) to be determined. They give also a method to find an explicit expression of \(w(x)\). Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition for the sequence \(\{(p\varphi_n)'\}^\infty_{n=0}\) to be orthogonal with respect to certain weight distribution (may be different from \(w\)) is also derived. Here \(p(x)\) stands for a given function. The results are stated in six theorems and two corollaries. The paper involves also six examples which clarify the applications of the theorems.

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