Invariant properties for Wronskian type determinants of classical and classical discrete orthogonal polynomials under an involution of sets of positive integers

Authors Guillermo P. Curbera, A. J. Durán

Publication date 22 December 2016

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Other functions coming from differential, difference and integral equations (33E30) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05)

Abstract: Given a finite set

F = f_{1}, c d o t s, f_{k}

of nonnegative integers (written in increasing size) and a classical discrete family

(p_{n})_{n}

of orthogonal polynomials (Charlier, Meixner, Krawtchouk or Hahn), we consider the Casorati determinant

d e t (p_{f_{i}} (x + j - 1))_{i, j = 1, c d o t s, k}

. In this paper we prove a nice invariant property for this kind of Casorati determinants when the set

F

is changed by

I (F) = 0, 1, 2, c d o t s, m a x F s e t m i n u s m a x F - f : f i n F

. This symmetry is related to the existence of higher order difference equations for the orthogonal polynomials with respect to certain Christoffel transforms of the classical discrete measures. By passing to the limit, this invariant property is extended for Wronskian type determinants whose entries are Hermite, Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials.

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