Spectral decomposition and matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials

The relation between the spectral decomposition of a self-adjoint operator which is realizable as a higher order recurrence operator and matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials is investigated. A general construction of such operators from scalar-valued orthogonal polynomials is presented. Two examples of matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials with explicit orthogonality relations and three-term recurrence relation are presented, which both can be considered as 2×2-matrix-valued analogues of subfamilies of Askey–Wilson polynomials.     

A new property of a class of Jacobi polynomials

Polynomials whose coefficients are successive derivatives of a class of Jacobi polynomials evaluated at are stable. This yields a novel and short proof of the known result that the Bessel polynomials are stable polynomials. Stability-preserving linear operators are discussed. The paper concludes with three open problems involving the distribution of zeros of polynomials.

     

An upper bound on Jacobi polynomials

Let be an orthonormal Jacobi polynomial of degree k. We will establish the following inequality:

where δ_-1<δ₁ are appropriate approximations to the extreme zeros of . As a corollary we confirm, even in a stronger form, T. Erdélyi, A.P. Magnus and P. Nevai conjecture [T. Erdélyi, A.P. Magnus, P. Nevai, Generalized Jacobi weights, Christoffel functions, and Jacobi polynomials, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 25 (1994) 602–614] by proving that

in the region .     

Some generating functions of Jacobi polynomials

In this paper, Weisner’s group-theoretic method of obtaining generating functions is utilized in the study of Jacobi polynomialsP> _n ^(a,ß)(x) by giving suitable interpretations to the index (n) and the parameter (β) to find out the elements for constructing a six-dimensional Lie algebra.     

On Jacobi and continuous Hahn polynomials

Jacobi polynomials are mapped onto the continuous Hahn polynomials by the Fourier transform, and the orthogonality relations for the continuous Hahn polynomials then follow from the orthogonality relations for the Jacobi polynomials and the Parseval formula. In a special case this relation dates back to work by Bateman in 1933 and we follow a part of the historical development for these polynomials. Some applications of this relation are given.

     

Jacobi polynomials in Bernstein form

The paper describes a method to compute a basis of mutually orthogonal polynomials with respect to an arbitrary Jacobi weight on the simplex. This construction takes place entirely in terms of the coefficients with respect to the so-called Bernstein–Bézier form of a polynomial.     

On conjectured inequalities for zeros of Jacobi polynomials

Inequalities for the largest zero of Jacobi polynomials, conjectured recently by us and in joint work with P. Leopardi, are here extended to all zeros of Jacobi polynomials, and new relevant conjectures are formulated based on extensive computation.      

Jacobi polynomials and design theory I

In this paper, we introduce the notion of Jacobi polynomials of a code with multiple reference vectors, and give the MacWilliams type identity for it. Moreover, we derive a formula to obtain the Jacobi polynomials using the Aronhold polarization operator. Finally, we describe some facts obtained from Type III and Type IV codes that interpret the relation between the Jacobi polynomials and designs.     

Euler characters and super Jacobi polynomials

We prove that Euler supercharacters for orthosymplectic Lie superalgebras can be obtained as a certain specialization of super Jacobi polynomials. A new version of Weyl type formula for super Schur functions and specialized super Jacobi polynomials play a key role in the proof.     

Conjectured inequalities for Jacobi polynomials and their largest zeros

Inequalities are conjectured for the Jacobi polynomials and their largest zeros. Special attention is given to the cases β = α − 1 and β = α.      

The bilateral birth–death chain generated by the associated Jacobi polynomials

We give a probabilistic interpretation of the associated Jacobi polynomials, which can be constructed from the three-term recurrence relation for the classical Jacobi polynomials by shifting the integer index n by a real number t. Under certain restrictions, this will give rise to a doubly infinite tridiagonal stochastic matrix, which can be interpreted as the one-step transition probability matrix of a discrete-time bilateral birth–death chain with state space on $\mathbb{Z}$. We also study the unique UL and LU stochastic factorizations of the transition probability matrix, as well as the discrete Darboux transformations and corresponding spectral matrices. Finally, we use all these results to provide an urn model on the integers for the associated Jacobi polynomials.     

On a conjectured inequality of Gautschi and Leopardi for Jacobi polynomials

Motivated by work on positive cubature formulae over the spherical surface, Gautschi and Leopardi conjectured that the inequality holds for α,β > − 1 and n ≥ 1, θ ∈ (0, π), where are the Jacobi polynomials of degree n and parameters (α, β). We settle this conjecture in the special cases where .      

An extremal property of Jacobi polynomials in two-sided Chernoff-type inequalities for higher order derivatives

For a weight function generating the classical Jacobi polynomials, the sharp double estimate of the distance from the subspace of all polynomials of an arbitrary fixed order is established.

     

Positivity of certain sums over Jacobi kernel polynomials

We present a computer-assisted proof of positivity of sums over kernel polynomials for ultraspherical Jacobi polynomials.     

Positive weight quadrature on the sphere and monotonicities of Jacobi polynomials

In 2000, Reimer proved that a positive weight quadrature rule on the unit sphere has the property of quadrature regularity. Hesse and Sloan used a related property, called Property (R) in their work on estimates of quadrature error on . The constants related to Property (R) for a sequence of positive weight quadrature rules on can be estimated by using a variation on Reimer’s bounds on the sum of the quadrature weight within a spherical cap, with Jacobi polynomials of the form , in combination with the Sturm comparison theorem. A recent conjecture on monotonicities of Jacobi polynomials would, if true, provide improved estimates for these constants. The work was carried out while the author was a PhD student at the School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales.     

The higher-order differential operator for the generalized Jacobi polynomials — new representation and symmetry

For a long time it has been a challenging goal to identify all orthogonal polynomial systems that occur as eigenfunctions of a linear differential equation. One of the widest classes of such eigenfunctions known so far, is given by Koornwinder’s generalized Jacobi polynomials with four parameters $\alpha ,\beta \in {\mathbb{N}}_0$ and $M,N\ge 0$ determining the orthogonality measure on the interval $?1\le x\le 1$. The corresponding differential equation of order $2\alpha +2\beta +6$ is presented here as a linear combination of four elementary components which make the corresponding differential operator widely accessible for applications. In particular, we show that this operator is symmetric with respect to the underlying scalar product and thus verify the orthogonality of the eigenfunctions.     

From random matrices to quasi-periodic Jacobi matrices via orthogonal polynomials

We present an informal review of results on asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials, stressing their spectral aspects and similarity in two cases considered. They are polynomials orthonormal on a finite union of disjoint intervals with respect to the Szegö weight and polynomials orthonormal on with respect to varying weights and having the same union of intervals as the set of oscillations of asymptotics. In both cases we construct double infinite Jacobi matrices with generically quasi-periodic coefficients and show that each of them is an isospectral deformation of another. Related results on asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of a class of random matrices of large size are also shortly discussed.     

d-Orthogonality of Humbert and Jacobi type polynomials

In this paper, we treat three questions related to the d-orthogonality of the Humbert polynomials. The first one consists to determinate the explicit expression of the d-dimensional functional vector for which the d-orthogonality holds. The second one is the investigation of the components of Humbert polynomial sequence. That allows us to introduce, as far as we know, new d-orthogonal polynomials generalizing the classical Jacobi ones. The third one consists to solve a characterization problem related to a generalized hypergeometric representation of the Humbert polynomials.