Painlevé V and a Pollaczek-Jacobi type orthogonal polynomials

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Abstract: We study a sequence of polynomials orthogonal with respect to a one parameter family of weights w(x):=w(x,t)= ex^{-t/x}:x^{al}(1-x)^{�t},quad tgeq 0, defined for xin[0,1]. If t=0, this reduces to a shifted Jacobi weight. Our ladder operator formalism and the associated compatibility conditions give an easy determination of the recurrence coefficients. For t>0, the factor ext/x induces an infinitely strong zero at x=0. With the aid of the compatibility conditions, the recurrence coefficients are expressed in terms of a set of auxiliary quantities that satisfy a system of difference equations. These, when suitably combined with a pair of Toda-like equations derived from the orthogonality principle, show that the auxiliary quantities are a particular Painlev'e V and/or allied functions. It is also shown that the logarithmic derivative of the Hankel determinant, D_n(t):=det(int_{0}^{1} x^{i+j} : ex^{-t/x}:x^{al}(1-x)^{�t}dx)_{i,j=0}^{n-1}, satisfies the Jimbo-Miwa-Okamoto sigmaform of the Painlev'e V and that the same quantity satisfies a second order non-linear difference equation which we believe to be new.



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