Asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials for a weight with a jump on [-1,1]

DOI10.1007/S00365-010-9091-XzbMATH Open1213.42090arXiv0904.2514OpenAlexW2001246409MaRDI QIDQ628671FDOQ628671

Ana Foulquié Moreno, Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein, V. L. Sousa Junior

Publication date: 14 March 2011

Published in: Constructive Approximation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the orthogonal polynomials on $[-1,1]$ with respect to the weight ${\displaystyle }$ w_c(x)=h(x)(1-x)^{alpha}(1+x)^{�eta} Xi_{c}(x), quad alpha, �eta >-1, ${\displaystyle }$ where $h$ is real analytic and strictly positive on $[-1,1]$, and $X{i}_c$ is a step-like function: $X{i}_c(x)=1$ for $xin[-1,0)$ and $X{i}_c(x)=c^2$, $c>0$, for $xin[0,1]$. We obtain strong uniform asymptotics of the monic orthogonal polynomials in $mathbbC$, as well as first terms of the asymptotic expansion of the main parameters (leading coefficients of the orthonormal polynomials and the recurrence coefficients) as $noinfty$. In particular, we prove for $w_c$ a conjecture of A. Magnus regarding the asymptotics of the recurrence coefficients. The main focus is on the local analysis at the origin. We study the asymptotics of the Christoffel-Darboux kernel in a neighborhood of the jump and show that the zeros of the orthogonal polynomials no longer exhibit the clock behavior. For the asymptotic analysis we use the steepest descendent method of Deift and Zhou applied to the non-commutative Riemann-Hilbert problems characterizing the orthogonal polynomials. The local analysis at $x=0$ is carried out in terms of the confluent hypergeometric functions. Incidentally, we establish some properties of these functions that may have an independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2514

zbMATH Keywords

asymptoticsconfluent hypergeometric functionszerosorthogonal polynomialsuniversalityreproducing kernelde Branges spacelocal behaviorRiemann-Hilbert analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Hilbert spaces with reproducing kernels (= (proper) functional Hilbert spaces, including de Branges-Rovnyak and other structured spaces) (46E22) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05)

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