New formulae of squares of some Jacobi polynomials via hypergeometric functions
Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
Volume 46 (2) (2017), 165 176
New formulae of squares of some Jacobi
polynomials via hypergeometric functions
W.M. Abd- Elhameed∗
†
Abstract
In this article, a new formula expressing explicitly the squares of Jacobi
polynomials of certain parameters in terms of Jacobi polynomials of arbitrary parameters is derived. The derived formula is given in terms
of ceratin terminating hypergeometric function of the type 4 F3 (1). In
some cases, this 4 F3 (1) can be reduced by using some well-known reduction formulae in literature such as Watson's and Pfa-Saalschütz's
identities. In some other cases, this 4 F3 (1) can be reduced by means of
symbolic computation, and in particular Zeilberger's, Petkovsek's and
van Hoeij's algorithms. Hence, some new squares formulae for Jacobi
polynomials of special parameters can be deduced in reduced forms
which are free of any hypergeometric functions.
Jacobi polynomials; linearization coecients; generalized hypergeometric functions; computer algebra, standard reduction formulae
2000 AMS Classication: 33F10; 33C20; 33Cxx; 68W30
Keywords:
Received : 23.02.2016 Accepted : 19.05.2016
Doi : 10.15672/HJMS.20164518618
1. Introduction
The Jacobi polynomials are of fundamental importance in theoretical and applied
mathematical analysis. The class of Jacobi polynomials contains six well-known families of orthogonal polynomials, they are, ultraspherical, Legendre and the four kinds of
Chebyshev polynomials. The Jacobi polynomials in general and their six special polynomials in particular are extensively employed in obtaining numerical solutions of ordinary,
fractional and partial dierential equations. In this respect, these polynomials are employed for the sake of obtaining spectral solutions for various kinds of dierential equations. For example, Abd-Elhameed in [1] has employed Legendre polynomials for solving
linear and nonlinear sixth-order two point boundary value problems via an elegant harmonic numbers operational matrix of derivatives. Also, Chebyshev, ultraspherical and
∗Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt,
Email: walee−
†
Corresponding Author.
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Jacobi polynomials are used for solving various kinds of boundary value problems (see,
for example [16, 5, 12]).
The two problems of linearizing products of various orthogonal polynomials and the
connection coecients between them are of interest. There are several old and recent
studies in this direction. For example, the two problems concerning linearization and connection coecients of ultraspherical and Jacobi polynomials have been studied in several
articles, see for instance [7, 18, 19, 20, 26, 9]. Some other investigations for the problems
of the linearization and connection coecients for various orthogonal polynomials can be
found in [10, 11, 3, 2, 4, 15, 23, 28, 29]. Recently, the problems of connection, duplication
and linearization coecients of various orthogonal polynomials have been investigated in
the Ph.D. thesis of Tcheutia [30].
To be more precise, and if we consider the two polynomials Fm (x) and Gn (x) of degrees
m and n respectively, then the linearization problem requires to nd the linearization
coecients Lm,n,k such that
(1.1)
Fm (x) Gn (x) =
m+n
X
Lm,n,k Qk (x),
k=0
and {Qk (x)}k≥0 is an arbitrary sequence of orthogonal polynomials.
The following two special problems of (1.1) are of interest:
:
(1.2)
(i) Clebsch-Gordan-type problem which requires to nd the coecients ξm,n,k
such that
Fm (x) Fn (x) =
m+n
X
ξm,n,k Fk (x).
k=0
:
(ii) The connection problem, which requires to nd the coecients γm,k , such
that
Fm (x) =
m
X
γm,k Qk (x).
k=0
The principal aim of this article is to establish some new formulae for the squares of
Jacobi polynomials of certain parameters. In particular, we nd the coecients Lm,n,k
1)
(α,− 2
in (1.1) for the case corresponds to: m = n, Fm (x) = Gn (x) = Pm
(γ,δ)
Pk
(x).
(x), and Qk (x) =
The rest of the paper is as follows. In Section 2, some mathematical preliminaries
concerning some properties of the classical Jacobi polynomials are presented. Moreover,
some transformation formulae between certain hypergeometric functions and also some
standard formulae of ceratin hypergeometric functions are presented. In Section 3, we
derive in detail a theorem in which a new squares formula of certain Jacobi polynomials is
given in terms of Jacobi polynomials of arbitrary parameters. Moreover, in this section,
and based on applying some standard formulae, some new linearization formulae are
given in explicit forms free of any hypergeometric functions. In Section 4, we describe
how symbolic computation, and in particular, the algorithms of Zeilberger, Petkovsek
and van Hoeij can be utilized for obtaining some reduced linearization formulae of Jacobi
polynomials of particular parameters.
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2. Preliminaries and useful transformations
This section is dedicated to presenting some properties of the classical Jacobi polynomials. Moreover, some important transformation formulae between some types of hypergeometric functions and also some standard reduction formulae of certain hypergeometric
functions are displayed.
The classical
Jacobi polynomials associated with the real parameters (γ> −1, δ > −1) (see, Olver et al.
(γ,δ)
[25], Andrews et al. [6] and Rainville [27]), are a sequence of polynomials Pm
(x), x ∈
[−1, 1] (m = 0, 1, 2, ...), each respectively of degree m. From now on, we use the following
normalized Jacobi polynomials introduced by Rahman [26] and used in [14].
2.1. Some relevant properties of the classical Jacobi polynomials.
(γ,δ)
Rm
(x) =
(2.1)
(γ,δ)
(x)
(γ,δ)
(1)
Pm
Pm
= 2 F1
=
m!
(γ,δ)
Pm
(x)
(γ + 1)m
−m, m + γ + δ + 1
γ+1
1−x
2
.
(γ,δ)
The polynomials Rm
(x) satisfy the following orthogonality relation:
(
Z 1
0,
m 6= n,
γ
δ
(γ,δ)
(γ,δ)
(2.2)
(1 − x) (1 + x) Rm (x)Rn (x) dx =
(γ,δ)
hm , m = n,
−1
where
(2.3)
h(γ,δ)
=
m
2γ+δ+1 m! Γ(m + δ + 1) [Γ(γ + 1)]2
.
(2m + γ + δ + 1) Γ(m + γ + δ + 1) Γ(m + γ + 1)
The advantage of using the normalized Jacobi polynomials in (2.1) is that its use yields
directly the following six polynomials as special cases.
1)
(α− 1
,α− 2
2
(α)
Cm
(x) = Rm
Um (x) = (m +
(x),
(1,1)
1) Rm2 2 (x),
Wm (x) = (2m +
( 1 ,− 1 )
1) Rm2 2 (x),
1 ,− 1 )
(− 2
2
Tm (x) = Rm
Vm (x) =
(x),
(− 1 , 1 )
Rm 2 2 (x),
(0,0)
Pm (x) = Rm
(x),
where Ci(α) (x), Ti (x), Ui (x), Vi (x), Wi (x) and Pi (x) are the ultraspherical, Chebyshev
of the rst, second, third and fourth kinds, and Legendre polynomials, respectively.
The following identity is also important.
(2.4)
(γ,δ)
Rm
(−x) =
(−1)m Γ(γ + 1) Γ(m + δ + 1) (δ,γ)
Rm (x).
Γ(δ + 1) Γ(m + γ + 1)
For more properties on Jacobi polynomials in general and their special polynomials in
particular, one can be referred to the important books of Andrews et al. [6] and Mason
and Handscomb. [24].
Recall the following well-known denition of
the gen (...truncated)