The multivariate Hahn polynomials and the singular oscillator

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/45/455201zbMATH Open1307.81034arXiv1406.6719OpenAlexW3101566330MaRDI QIDQ2936396FDOQ2936396

Authors: Vincent X. Genest, Luc Vinet 

Publication date: 16 December 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Karlin and McGregor's d-variable Hahn polynomials are shown to arise in the (d+1)-dimensional singular oscillator model as the overlap coefficients between bases associated to the separation of variables in Cartesian and hyperspherical coordinates. These polynomials in d discrete variables depend on d+1 real parameters and are orthogonal with respect to the multidimensional hypergeometric distribution. The focus is put on the d=2 case for which the connection with the three-dimensional singular oscillator is used to derive the main properties of the polynomials: forward/backward shift operators, orthogonality relation, generating function, recurrence relations, bispectrality (difference equations) and explicit expression in terms of the univariate Hahn polynomials. The extension of these results to an arbitrary number of variables is presented at the end of the paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6719

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zbMATH Keywords

multivariate orthogonal polynomialssuperintegrable systemsinterbasis expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions in several variables expressible in terms of special functions in one variable (33C50) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12)

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