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Racah polynomials

In mathematics, Racah polynomials are orthogonal polynomials named after Giulio Racah, as their orthogonality relations are equivalent to his orthogonality relations for Racah coefficients.

The Racah polynomials were first defined by Wilson (1978) and are given by

p_{n}(x(x+\gamma +\delta +1))={}_{4}F_{3}\left[{\begin{matrix}-n&n+\alpha +\beta +1&-x&x+\gamma +\delta +1\\\alpha +1&\gamma +1&\beta +\delta +1\\\end{matrix}};1\right].

Orthogonality

\sum _{y=0}^{N}\operatorname {R} _{n}(x;\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta )\operatorname {R} _{m}(x;\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta ){\frac {\gamma +\delta +1+2y}{\gamma +\delta +1+y}}\omega _{y}=h_{n}\operatorname {\delta } _{n,m},

^[1]

when

\alpha +1=-N

,

where

\operatorname {R}

is the Racah polynomial,

x=y(y+\gamma +\delta +1),

\operatorname {\delta } _{n,m}

is the Kronecker delta function and the weight functions are

\omega _{y}={\frac {(\alpha +1)_{y}(\beta +\delta +1)_{y}(\gamma +1)_{y}(\gamma +\delta +2)_{y}}{(-\alpha +\gamma +\delta +1)_{y}(-\beta +\gamma +1)_{y}(\delta +1)_{y}y!}},

and

h_{n}={\frac {(-\beta )_{N}(\gamma +\delta +1)_{N}}{(-\beta +\gamma +1)_{N}(\delta +1)_{N}}}{\frac {(n+\alpha +\beta +1)_{n}n!}{(\alpha +\beta +2)_{2n}}}{\frac {(\alpha +\delta -\gamma +1)_{n}(\alpha -\delta +1)_{n}(\beta +1)_{n}}{(\alpha +1)_{n}(\beta +\delta +1)_{n}(\gamma +1)_{n}}},

(\cdot )_{n}

is the Pochhammer symbol.

Rodrigues-type formula

\omega (x;\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta )\operatorname {R} _{n}(\lambda (x);\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta )=(\gamma +\delta +1)_{n}{\frac {\nabla ^{n}}{\nabla \lambda (x)^{n}}}\omega (x;\alpha +n,\beta +n,\gamma +n,\delta ),

^[2]

where

\nabla

is the backward difference operator,

\lambda (x)=x(x+\gamma +\delta +1).

Generating functions

There are three generating functions for $x\in \{0,1,2,...,N\}$

when

\beta +\delta +1=-N\quad

or

\quad \gamma +1=-N,

{}_{2}F_{1}(-x,-x+\alpha -\gamma -\delta ;\alpha +1;t){}_{2}F_{1}(x+\beta +\delta +1,x+\gamma +1;\beta +1;t)

\quad =\sum _{n=0}^{N}{\frac {(\beta +\delta +1)_{n}(\gamma +1)_{n}}{(\beta +1)_{n}n!}}\operatorname {R} _{n}(\lambda (x);\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta )t^{n},

when

\alpha +1=-N\quad

or

\quad \gamma +1=-N,

{}_{2}F_{1}(-x,-x+\beta -\gamma ;\beta +\delta +1;t){}_{2}F_{1}(x+\alpha +1,x+\gamma +1;\alpha -\delta +1;t)

\quad =\sum _{n=0}^{N}{\frac {(\alpha +1)_{n}(\gamma +1)_{n}}{(\alpha -\delta +1)_{n}n!}}\operatorname {R} _{n}(\lambda (x);\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta )t^{n},

when

\alpha +1=-N\quad

or

\quad \beta +\delta +1=-N,

{}_{2}F_{1}(-x,-x-\delta ;\gamma +1;t){}_{2}F_{1}(x+\alpha +1;x+\beta +\gamma +1;\alpha +\beta -\gamma +1;t)

\quad =\sum _{n=0}^{N}{\frac {(\alpha +1)_{n}(\beta +\delta +1)_{n}}{(\alpha +\beta -\gamma +1)_{n}n!}}\operatorname {R} _{n}(\lambda (x);\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta )t^{n}.

Connection formula for Wilson polynomials

When $\alpha =a+b-1,\beta =c+d-1,\gamma =a+d-1,\delta =a-d,x\rightarrow -a+ix,$

\operatorname {R} _{n}(\lambda (-a+ix);a+b-1,c+d-1,a+d-1,a-d)={\frac {\operatorname {W} _{n}(x^{2};a,b,c,d)}{(a+b)_{n}(a+c)_{n}(a+d)_{n}}},

where

\operatorname {W}

are Wilson polynomials.

q-analog

Askey & Wilson (1979) introduced the q-Racah polynomials defined in terms of basic hypergeometric functions by

p_{n}(q^{-x}+q^{x+1}cd;a,b,c,d;q)={}_{4}\phi _{3}\left[{\begin{matrix}q^{-n}&abq^{n+1}&q^{-x}&q^{x+1}cd\\aq&bdq&cq\\\end{matrix}};q;q\right].

They are sometimes given with changes of variables as

W_{n}(x;a,b,c,N;q)={}_{4}\phi _{3}\left[{\begin{matrix}q^{-n}&abq^{n+1}&q^{-x}&cq^{x-n}\\aq&bcq&q^{-N}\\\end{matrix}};q;q\right].

References

^ Koornwinder, Tom H.; Wong, Roderick S. C.; Koekoek, Roelof; Swarttouw, René F. (2010), "Wilson Class: Definitions", in Olver, Frank W. J.; Lozier, Daniel M.; Boisvert, Ronald F.; Clark, Charles W. (eds.), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-19225-5, MR 2723248.
^ Koekoek, Roelof; Swarttouw, René F. (1998), The Askey-scheme of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials and its q-analogue

Askey, Richard; Wilson, James (1979), "A set of orthogonal polynomials that generalize the Racah coefficients or 6-j symbols" (PDF), SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 10 (5): 1008–1016, doi:10.1137/0510092, ISSN 0036-1410, MR 0541097, archived from the original on September 25, 2017
Wilson, J. (1978), Hypergeometric series recurrence relations and some new orthogonal functions, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison

Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racah_polynomials