Self-adjoint difference operators and symmetric Al-Salam-Chihara polynomials

DOI10.1007/S00365-007-0677-XMaRDI QIDQ1015401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacob Stordal Christiansen, Erik Koelink

Publication date 8 May 2009

Published in Constructive Approximation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610534

zbMATH Keywords

Al-Salam--Chihara polynomialsdensity of polynomialsdifference operatorsspectral analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moment problems (44A60) Jacobi (tridiagonal) operators (matrices) and generalizations (47B36)

Abstract: The symmetric Al-Salam--Chihara polynomials for $q>1$ are associated with an indeterminate moment problem. There is a self-adjoint second order difference operator on $$ to which these polynomials are eigenfunctions. We determine the spectral decomposition of this self-adjoint operator. This leads to a class of discrete orthogonality measures, which have been obtained previously by Christiansen and Ismail using a different method, and we give an explicit orthogonal basis for the corresponding weighted $el{l}^2$-space. In particular, the orthocomplement of the polynomials is described explicitly. Taking a limit we obtain all the $N$-extremal solutions to the $q^{-1}$-Hermite moment problem, a result originally obtained by Ismail and Masson in a different way. Some applications of the results are discussed.

Review text

The main idea of the present paper stems from the fact that the Al-Salam--Chihara polynomials occur in the Askey scheme, so they are eigenfunctions to a specific second-order difference operator \(L\). The authors find a suitable Hilbert space \(H\) such that \(L\) is a selfadjoint operator on \(H\). They show that this operator is trace-class, and even in every Schatten class, by estimating its singular values. The spectral decomposition of \(L\) is given explicitly. It turns out that the positive discrete part corresponds to the symmetric Al-Salam--Chihara polynomials with parameter \(\beta\), and the negative to the symmetric Al-Salam--Chihara polynomials with parameter \(1/q^2\beta\).

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