The multivariate Charlier polynomials as matrix elements of the Euclidean group representation on oscillator states

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/21/215204zbMATH Open1296.33025arXiv1401.7901OpenAlexW2152245184MaRDI QIDQ4979909FDOQ4979909

Vincent X. Genest, Hiroshi Miki, Luc Vinet, Alexei Zhedanov

Publication date: 19 June 2014

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

Abstract: A family of multivariate orthogonal polynomials generalizing the standard (univariate) Charlier polynomials is shown to arise in the matrix elements of the unitary representation of the Euclidean group E(d) on oscillator states. These polynomials in d discrete variables are orthogonal on the product of d Poisson distributions. The accent is put on the d=2 case and the group theoretical setting is used to obtain the main properties of the polynomials: orthogonality and recurrence relations, difference equation, raising/lowering relations, generating function, hypergeometric and integral representations and explicit expression in terms of standard Charlier and Krawtchouk polynomials. The approach is seen to extend straightforwardly to an arbitrary number of variables. The contraction of SO(3) to E(2) is used to show that the bivariate Charlier polynomials correspond to a limit of the bivariate Krawtchouk polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7901

zbMATH Keywords

multivariate orthogonal polynomialsLie group representationEuclidean groupstandard Charlier polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions in several variables expressible in terms of special functions in one variable (33C50) Representation theory of lattices (06B15)

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