Jacobi, Gegenbauer, Chebyshev of first, second, third, fourth kind, Legendre, Laguerre, Hermite, shifted Chebyshev and Legendre polynomials using MATLAB.
- Definitions
- Jacobi polynomials
- Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind
- Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind
- Chebyshev polynomials of the third kind
- Chebyshev polynomials of the fourth kind
- Gegenbauer polynomials
- Legendre polynomials
- Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind
- Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind
- Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the third kind
- Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the fourth kind
- Shifted Gegenbauer polynomials
- Shifted Legendre polynomials
- Laguerre Polynomials
- Hermite He Polynomials (probabilist's Hermite polynomials)
- Hermite H Polynomials (physicist's Hermite polynomials)
- References
Orthogonality on intervals. A set of polynomials
Orthonormality on intervals. A set of polynomials
Recurrence relations. Assume that
Rodrigues' formula. Orthogonal polynomials can be expressed through Rodrigue's formula, which gives an analytic expression for polynomials through derivatives:
Pochhammer Symbol & Falling Factorial
Name | ||||||
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Jacobi | ||||||
Gegenbauer | ||||||
Chebyshev of first kind | ||||||
Chebyshev of second kind | ||||||
Chebyshev of third kind | ||||||
Chebyshev of fourth kind | ||||||
Legendre | ||||||
Laguerre | ||||||
Hermite | ||||||
Hermite |
The Jacobi polynomials
Definition. For
For
Another representation can be obtained using the Rodrigues' formula:
Recurrence relations.
where
with
Orthogonality.
Special values.
The Laguerre polynomials
Definition. The Laguerre polynomials are defined via Rodrigues' formula:
Recurrence relations.
where
with
Orthogonality.
The probabilist's Hermite polynomials
Definition. The probabilist's Hermite polynomials are defined via Rodrigues' formula:
Recurrence relations.
where
with
Orthogonality.
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. https://dlmf.nist.gov/, Release 1.2.0 of 2024-03-15. F. W. J. Olver, A. B. Olde Daalhuis, D. W. Lozier, B. I. Schneider, R. F. Boisvert, C. W. Clark, B. R. Miller, B. V. Saunders, H. S. Cohl, and M. A. McClain, eds.