An extended class of orthogonal polynomials defined by a Sturm-Liouville problem

Details An extended class of orthogonal polynomials defined by a Sturm-Liouville problem An extended class of orthogonal polynomials defined by a Sturm-Liouville problem

2008-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/0807.3939v2

J. Math. Anal. Appl. 359 (2009) 352-367

Physics

Mathematical Physics

25 pages, some remarks and references added

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.05.052

We present two infinite sequences of polynomial eigenfunctions of a Sturm-Liouville problem. As opposed to the classical orthogonal polynomial systems, these sequences start with a polynomial of degree one. We denote these polynomials as $X_1$-Jacobi and $X_1$-Laguerre and we prove that they are orthogonal with respect to a positive definite inner product defined over the the compact interval $[-1,1]$ or the half-line $[0,\infty)$, respectively, and they are a basis of the corresponding $L^2$ Hilbert spaces. Moreover, we prove a converse statement similar to Bochner's theorem for the classical orthogonal polynomial systems: if a self-adjoint second order operator has a complete set of polynomial eigenfunctions $\{p_i\}_{i=1}^\infty$, then it must be either the $X_1$-Jacobi or the $X_1$-Laguerre Sturm-Liouville problem. A Rodrigues-type formula can be derived for both of the $X_1$ polynomial sequences.

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