Additional Recursion Relations, Factorizations, and Diophantine Properties Associated with the Polynomials of the Askey Scheme.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2009, Article ID 268134, 43 pages doi:10.1155/2009/268134 Research Article Additional Recursion Relations, Factorizations, and Diophantine Properties Associated with the Polynomials of the Askey Scheme M. Bruschi,1, 2 F. Calogero,1, 2 and R. Droghei3 1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185 Roma, Italy ` 2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita Roma Tre, 00146 Roma, Italy ` Correspondence should be addressed to F. Calogero, francesco.calogero@roma1.infn.it Received 29 July 2008; Accepted 1 December 2008 Recommended by M. Lakshmanan In this paper, we apply to almost all the “named” polynomials of the Askey scheme, as defined by their standard three-term recursion relations, the machinery developed in previous papers. For each of these polynomials we identify at least one additional recursion relation involving a shift in some of the parameters they feature, and for several of these polynomials characterized by special values of their parameters, factorizations are identified yielding some or all of their zeros— generally given by simple expressions in terms of integers Diophantine relations. The factorization findings generally are applicable for values of the Askey polynomials that extend beyond those for which the standard orthogonality relations hold. Most of these results are not yet reported in the standard compilations. Copyright q 2009 M. Bruschi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution,