Expansions and Characterizations of Sieved Random Walk Polynomials

Stefan Kahler

Symmetry, integrability and geometry: methods and applications, Tome 19 (2023)

Résumé

We consider random walk polynomial sequences $(P_n(x))_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0}\subseteq\mathbb{R}[x]$ given by recurrence relations $P_0(x)=1$, $P_1(x)=x$, $x P_n(x)=(1-c_n)P_{n+1}(x)+c_n P_{n-1}(x),$ $n\in\mathbb{N}$ with $(c_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\subseteq(0,1)$. For every $k\in\mathbb{N}$, the $k$-sieved polynomials $(P_n(x;k))_{n\in\mathbb{N}_0}$ arise from the recurrence coefficients $c(n;k):=c_{n/k}$ if $k|n$ and $c(n;k):=1/2$ otherwise. A main objective of this paper is to study expansions in the Chebyshev basis $\{T_n(x)\colon n\in\mathbb{N}_0\}$. As an application, we obtain explicit expansions for the sieved ultraspherical polynomials. Moreover, we introduce and study a sieved version $\mathrm{D}_k$ of the Askey–Wilson operator $\mathcal{D}_q$. It is motivated by the sieved ultraspherical polynomials, a generalization of the classical derivative and obtained from $\mathcal{D}_q$ by letting $q$ approach a $k$-th root of unity. However, for $k\geq2$ the new operator $\mathrm{D}_k$ on $\mathbb{R}[x]$ has an infinite-dimensional kernel (in contrast to its ancestor), which leads to additional degrees of freedom and characterization results for $k$-sieved random walk polynomials. Similar characterizations are obtained for a sieved averaging operator $\mathrm{A}_k$.

Détail

Keywords: random walk polynomials, sieved polynomials, Askey–Wilson operator, averaging operator
Mots-clés : polynomial expansions, Fourier coefficients.

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