Mathematics – Classical Analysis and ODEs
Scientific paper
2001-07-05
45-84 in `Laredo Lectures on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions' (eds. R. \'Alvarez-Nodarse, F. Marcell\'an, W. Van
Mathematics
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Lecture notes for the SIAM Activity Group OP-SF summer school 2000, Laredo, Spain. 40 page, latex
Scientific paper
A short introduction to the use of the spectral theorem for self-adjoint operators in the theory of special functions is given. As the first example, the spectral theorem is applied to Jacobi operators, i.e. tridiagonal operators, on l^2(N), leading to a proof of Favard's theorem stating that polynomials satisfying a three-term recurrence relation are orthogonal polynomials. We discuss the link to the moment problem. In the second example, the spectral theorem is applied to Jacobi operators on l^2(Z). We discuss the theorem of Masson and Repka linking the deficiency indices of a Jacobi operator on l^2(Z) to those of two Jacobi operators on l^2(N). For two examples of Jacobi operators on l^2(Z), namely for the Meixner, respectively Meixner-Pollaczek, functions, related to the associated Meixner, respectively Meixner-Pollaczek, polynomials, and for the second order hypergeometric q-difference operator, we calculate the spectral measure explicitly. This gives explicit (generalised) orthogonality relations for hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series.
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