Abstract
We develop a method for deriving integral representations of certain orthogonal polynomials as moments. These moment representations are applied to find linear and multilinear generating functions for q-orthogonal polynomials. As a byproduct we establish new transformation formulas for combinations of basic hypergeometric functions, including a new representation of the q-exponential function εq.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 709-735 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Canadian Journal of Mathematics |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2002 |
Keywords
- Al-Salam-Chihara polynomials
- Associated polynomials
- Continuous q-ultraspherical polynomials
- Generating functions
- q-difference equations
- q-integral
- q-orthogonal polynomials