3.8 Al-Salam-Chihara

Definition.

 

Orthogonality. If a and b are real or complex conjugates and , then we have the following orthogonality relation

 

where

with

If a > 1 and |ab| < 1, then we have another orthogonality relation given by :

 

where is as before,

and

Recurrence relation.

 

Normalized recurrence relation.

 

where

q-Difference equation.

 

where

If we define

then the q-difference equation can also be written in the form

 

where

Forward shift operator.

 

or equivalently

 

Backward shift operator.

 

or equivalently

 

Rodrigues-type formula.

 

Generating functions.

 

 

 

 

References. [13], [19], [20], [55], [58], [73], [125], [132], [164], [236], [239], [261], [262].




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