A combinatorial interpretation of the Legendre-Stirling numbers

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09814-1zbMath1167.05002OpenAlexW2019006632MaRDI QIDQ5322851

George E. Andrews, Lance L. Littlejohn

Publication date: 23 July 2009

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-09-09814-1

zbMATH Keywords

self-adjoint operatorStirling numbers of the second kindLegendre polynomialsLegendre-Stirling numbersleft-definite theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05)

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