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§18.33 Polynomials Orthogonal on the Unit Circle

Keywords:: polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle
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§18.33(i) Definition
§18.33(ii) Recurrence Relations
§18.33(iii) Connection with OP’s on the Line
§18.33(iv) Special Cases
§18.33(v) Biorthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle

§18.33(i) Definition

Notes:: See Szegö (1975, (11.1.8)).
Keywords:: polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle
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A system of polynomials $\{\phi_{n}(z)\}$ , $n=0,1,\dots$ , where $\phi_{n}(z)$ is of proper degree , is orthonormal on the unit circle with respect to the weight function ( $\geq 0$ ) if

18.33.1 $\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{{|z|=1}}\phi_{n}(z)\conj{\phi_{m}(z)}w(z)\frac{dz}{z}=% \delta_{{n,m}},$

Symbols:: $\delta_{{j,k}}$ : Kronecker delta, $\conj{z}$ : complex conjugate, : differential of , $\int$ : integral, : weight function, : complex variable, : nonnegative integer, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
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where the bar signifies complex conjugate. See Simon (2005a, b) for general theory.

§18.33(ii) Recurrence Relations

Notes:: See Szegö (1975, (11.4.6), (11.4.7)). (18.33.6) follows from (18.33.4), (18.33.5).
Keywords:: polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle
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Denote

18.33.2 $\phi_{n}(z)=\kappa_{n}z^{n}+\sum_{{\ell=1}}^{n}\kappa_{{n,n-\ell}}z^{{n-\ell}},$

Symbols:: : complex variable, $\ell$ : nonnegative integer, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
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where $\kappa_{n}(>0)$ , and $\kappa_{{n,n-\ell}}(\in\Complex)$ are constants. Also denote

18.33.3 $\phi_{n}^{{*}}(z)=\kappa_{n}z^{n}+\sum_{{\ell=1}}^{n}\conj{\kappa}_{{n,n-\ell}% }z^{{n-\ell}},$

Symbols:: $\conj{z}$ : complex conjugate, : complex variable, $\ell$ : nonnegative integer, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
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where the bar again signifies compex conjugate. Then

18.33.4 $\kappa_{n}z\phi_{n}(z)=\kappa_{{n+1}}\phi_{{n+1}}(z)-\phi_{{n+1}}(0)\phi_{{n+1% }}^{{*}}(z),$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
Referenced by:: §18.33(ii)
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18.33.5 $\kappa_{n}\phi_{{n+1}}(z)=\kappa_{{n+1}}z\phi_{n}(z)+\phi_{{n+1}}(0)\phi_{n}^{% {*}}(z),$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
Referenced by:: §18.33(ii)
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18.33.6 $\kappa_{n}\phi_{n}(0)\phi_{{n+1}}(z)+\kappa_{{n-1}}\phi_{{n+1}}(0)z\phi_{{n-1}% }(z)=\left(\kappa_{n}\phi_{{n+1}}(0)+\kappa_{{n+1}}\phi_{n}(0)z\right)\phi_{n}% (z).$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
Referenced by:: §18.33(ii)
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§18.33(iii) Connection with OP’s on the Line

Notes:: See Szegö (1975, (11.5.2)). (18.33.10) and (18.33.11) follow from (18.33.8), (18.33.9).
Keywords:: polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle
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Assume that $w(e^{{i\phi}})=w(e^{{-i\phi}})$ . Set

18.33.7

$w_{1}(x)=(1-x^{2})^{{-\frac{1}{2}}}w\left(x+i(1-x^{2})^{{\frac{1}{2}}}\right),$

$w_{2}(x)=(1-x^{2})^{{\frac{1}{2}}}w\left(x+i(1-x^{2})^{{\frac{1}{2}}}\right).$

Symbols:: : weight function, $w_{x}$ : weights and : real variable
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Let $\{p_{n}(x)\}$ and $\{q_{n}(x)\}$ , $n=0,1,\dots$ , be OP’s with weight functions $w_{1}(x)$ and $w_{2}(x)$ , respectively, on . Then

18.33.8 $p_{n}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)=\text{(const.)}\times{\left(z^{{-n}% }\phi_{{2n}}(z)+z^{n}\phi_{{2n}}(z^{{-1}})\right)}=\text{(const.)}\times{\left% (z^{{-n+1}}\phi_{{2n-1}}(z)+z^{{n-1}}\phi_{{2n-1}}(z^{{-1}})\right)},$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer, $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials and $p_{n}(x)$ : an orthogonal polynomial
Referenced by:: §18.33(iii)
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18.33.9 $q_{n}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)={\text{(const.)}\times\frac{z^{{-n-% 1}}\phi_{{2n+2}}(z)-z^{{n+1}}\phi_{{2n+2}}(z^{{-1}})}{z-z^{{-1}}}}={\text{(% const.)}\times\frac{z^{{-n}}\phi_{{2n+1}}(z)-z^{n}\phi_{{2n+1}}(z^{{-1}})}{z-z% ^{{-1}}}}.$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer, $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials and $q_{n}(x)$ : an orthogonal polynomial
Referenced by:: §18.33(iii)
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Conversely,

18.33.10 $z^{{-n}}\phi_{{2n}}(z)={A_{n}p_{n}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)+B_{n}(% z-z^{{-1}})q_{{n-1}}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)},$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer, $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials, $q_{n}(x)$ : an orthogonal polynomial, $p_{n}(x)$ : an orthogonal polynomial, $A_{n}$ : coefficient and $B_{n}$ : coefficient
Referenced by:: §18.33(iii)
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18.33.11 $z^{{-n+1}}\phi_{{2n-1}}(z)={C_{n}p_{n}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)+D_% {n}(z-z^{{-1}})q_{{n-1}}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)},$

Symbols:: : complex variable, : nonnegative integer, $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials, $q_{n}(x)$ : an orthogonal polynomial, $p_{n}(x)$ : an orthogonal polynomial, $C_{n}$ : coefficient and $D_{n}$ : coefficient
Referenced by:: §18.33(iii)
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where $A_{n}$ , $B_{n}$ , $C_{n}$ , and $D_{n}$ are independent of .

§18.33(iv) Special Cases

Notes:: See Askey (1982) and Pastro (1985).
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¶ Trivial

18.33.12

$\phi_{n}(z)=z^{n},$

Symbols:: : weight function, : complex variable, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
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¶ Szegö–Askey

Keywords:: Szegö–Askey polynomials, hypergeometric function

18.33.13 $\phi_{n}(z)=\sum_{{\ell=0}}^{n}\frac{\left(\lambda+1\right)_{{\ell}}\left(% \lambda\right)_{{n-\ell}}}{\ell!\,(n-\ell)!}\,z^{\ell}=\frac{\left(\lambda% \right)_{{n}}}{n!}\mathop{{{}_{{2}}F_{{1}}}\/}\nolimits\!\left({-n,\lambda+1% \atop-\lambda-n+1};z\right),$

Symbols:: $\mathop{{{}_{{p}}F_{{q}}}\/}\nolimits\!\left({a_{1},\dots,a_{p}\atop b_{1},% \dots,b_{q}};z\right)$ : generalized hypergeometric function, $\left(a\right)_{{n}}$ : Pochhammer’s symbol, : : factorial, : complex variable, $\ell$ : nonnegative integer, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
Referenced by:: §18.33(v)
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with

18.33.14

$w(z)=\left(1-\tfrac{1}{2}(z+z^{{-1}})\right)^{\lambda},$

$w_{1}(x)=(1-x)^{{\lambda-\frac{1}{2}}}(1+x)^{{-\frac{1}{2}}},$

$w_{2}(x)=(1-x)^{{\lambda+\frac{1}{2}}}(1+x)^{{\frac{1}{2}}},$ $\lambda>-\tfrac{1}{2}$ .

Symbols:: : weight function, $w_{x}$ : weights, : complex variable and : real variable
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For the hypergeometric function $\mathop{{{}_{{2}}F_{{1}}}\/}\nolimits$ see §§15.1 and 15.2(i).

¶ Askey

Keywords:: Askey polynomials, Rogers–Szegö polynomials, Szegö–Askey polynomials

18.33.15 $\phi_{n}(z)=\sum_{{\ell=0}}^{n}\frac{\left(aq^{2};q^{2}\right)_{{\ell}}\left(a% ;q^{2}\right)_{{n-\ell}}}{\left(q^{2};q^{2}\right)_{{\ell}}\left(q^{2};q^{2}% \right)_{{n-\ell}}}(q^{{-1}}z)^{\ell}=\frac{\left(a;q^{2}\right)_{{n}}}{\left(% q^{2};q^{2}\right)_{{n}}}\mathop{{{}_{{2}}\phi_{{1}}}\/}\nolimits\!\left({aq^{% 2},q^{{-2n}}\atop a^{{-1}}q^{{2-2n}}};q^{2},\frac{qz}{a}\right),$

Symbols:: $\left(a;q\right)_{{n}}$ : -factorial (or -shifted factorial), $\mathop{{{}_{{r+1}}\phi_{{s}}}\/}\nolimits\!\left({a_{0},a_{1},\dots,a_{r}% \atop b_{1},b_{2},\dots,b_{s}};q,z\right)$ : basic hypergeometric (or -hypergeometric) function, : complex variable, : real variable, $\ell$ : nonnegative integer, : nonnegative integer and $\phi_{n}(z)$ : polynomials
Referenced by:: §18.33(v)
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with

18.33.16 $w(z)=\left|\left(qz;q^{2}\right)_{{\infty}}\Bigm/\left(aqz;q^{2}\right)_{{% \infty}}\right|^{2},$ $a^{2}q^{2}<1$ .

Symbols:: $\left(a;q\right)_{{n}}$ : -factorial (or -shifted factorial), : weight function, : complex variable and : real variable
Referenced by:: §18.33(v)
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For the notation, including the basic hypergeometric function $\mathop{{{}_{{2}}\phi_{{1}}}\/}\nolimits$ , see §§17.2 and 17.4(i).

When the Askey case is also known as the Rogers–Szegö case.

§18.33(v) Biorthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle

Keywords:: polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle
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See Baxter (1961) for general theory. See Askey (1982) and Pastro (1985) for special cases extending (18.33.13)–(18.33.14) and (18.33.15)–(18.33.16), respectively. See Gasper (1981) and Hendriksen and van Rossum (1986) for relations with Laurent polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle. See Al-Salam and Ismail (1994) for special biorthogonal rational functions on the unit circle.

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