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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788847603321

Autore

Bowman Douglas <1965->

Titolo

q-difference operators, orthogonal polynomials, and symmetric expansions / / Douglas Bowman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2002

ISBN

1-4704-0350-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 757

Disciplina

510 s

515/.55

Soggetti

q-series

Difference operators

Hypergeometric functions

Orthogonal polynomials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 159, number 757 (fourth of 5 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction and preliminaries""; ""1.1. q-Symmetric polynomials and the q-multinomial""; ""1.2. q-Difference operators""; ""1.3. Orthogonal polynomials""; ""1.4. The symmetric functions Î?[sub(m)]""; ""1.5. Further notation, conventions and base inversion""; ""Chapter 2. New results and connections with current research""; ""2.1. Identification of Î?[sub(4)] as q-hypergeometric""; ""2.2. Symmetry creating operators""; ""2.3. Rogers's paper and orthogonal polynomials""; ""2.4. Synthesis: The continuous q-ultraspherical polynomials""

""2.5. Convergence criteria for operator theorems""""2.6. A fascinating phenomenon""; ""2.7. Operator theorems and q-Heisenberg algebras""; ""Chapter 3. Vector operator identities and simple applications""; ""3.1. A new operator theorem""; ""3.2. Applications to q-series""; ""3.3. A vector q-Leibniz rule""; ""3.4. Further operator theorems and simple applications""; ""3.5. Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""