In this section, we will first fix some notations that will be used throughout this paper and then recall the necessary basic facts about orthogonal polynomials. As we will limit the facts to the minimum, the interested reader is advised to refer to general books on orthogonal polynomials, for example [2, 4].
For any nonnegative integer n, the falling factorial polynomials \((x)_{n}\) and the rising factorial polynomials \(\langle x\rangle _{n}\) are respectively given by
$$\begin{aligned}& (x)_{n}=x(x-1)\cdots (x-n+1) \quad (n\geq 1), \quad\quad (x)_{0}=1, \end{aligned}$$
(1.1)
$$\begin{aligned}& \langle x\rangle _{n}=x(x+1)\cdots (x+n-1) \quad (n\geq 1), \quad\quad \langle x\rangle _{0}=1. \end{aligned}$$
(1.2)
The two factorial polynomials are related by
$$\begin{aligned}& (-1)^{n} (x)_{n} =\langle -x\rangle _{n}, \quad\quad (-1)^{n} \langle x\rangle _{n} =(-x)_{n} , \end{aligned}$$
(1.3)
$$\begin{aligned}& \frac{(2n-2j)!}{(n-j)!}= \frac{2^{2n-2j} (-1)^{j} \langle \frac{1}{2} \rangle _{n} }{ \langle \frac{1}{2}-n \rangle _{j}} \quad (n\geq j \geq 0), \end{aligned}$$
(1.4)
$$\begin{aligned}& \frac{(2n+2j)!}{(n+j)!}=2^{2n+2j} \biggl\langle \frac{1}{2} \biggr\rangle _{n} \biggl\langle n+ \frac{1}{2} \biggr\rangle _{j} \quad (n, j\geq 0), \end{aligned}$$
(1.5)
$$\begin{aligned}& \varGamma ( \biggl( n+ \frac{1}{2} \biggr)= \frac{(2n)!\sqrt{\pi } }{2^{2n} n!} \quad (n\geq 0), \end{aligned}$$
(1.6)
$$\begin{aligned}& \frac{\varGamma (x+1)}{\varGamma (x+1-n) } =(x)_{n}, \quad\quad \frac{\varGamma (x+n)}{\varGamma (x) } =\langle x\rangle _{n} \quad (n\geq 0), \end{aligned}$$
(1.7)
where \(\varGamma (x)\) is the gamma function. The hypergeometric function is defined by
$$ _{p}F_{q} (a_{1}, \ldots, a_{p}; b_{1},\ldots, b_{q}; x)= \sum _{n=0} ^{\infty }\frac{\langle a_{1}\rangle _{n} \cdots \langle a_{p}\rangle _{n}}{\langle b_{1}\rangle _{n} \cdots \langle b _{q}\rangle _{n} } \frac{x^{n}}{n!}. $$
(1.8)
Next, we need to recall some basic facts about Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind \(T_{n}(x)\), Hermite polynomials \(H_{n}(x)\), extended Laguerre polynomials \(L_{n}^{\alpha }(x)\), Legendre polynomials \(P_{n}(x)\), Gegenbauer polynomials \(C_{n}^{(\lambda )}(x)\), and Jacobi polynomials \(P_{n}^{(\alpha , \beta )}(x)\). All of these facts can be also found in [7,8,9,10, 13, 14]. Also, we will mention some necessary facts on Lucas polynomials \(L_{n}(x)\). Here we note that when \(\alpha =0\), the extended Laguerre polynomials \(L_{n}^{0}(x)\) are usually denoted by \(L_{n}(x)\) and called Laguerre polynomials. However, in this paper \(L_{n}(x)\) always indicates the Lucas polynomials and never means the Laguerre polynomials.
In terms of generating functions, the above mentioned polynomials are given as in the following:
$$\begin{aligned}& F (t,x)=\frac{2-xt}{1-xt-t^{2}}=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }L_{n}(x) t^{n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.9)
$$\begin{aligned}& G(t,x)=\frac{1-xt}{1-2xt+t^{2}}=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }T_{n}(x) t^{n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.10)
$$\begin{aligned}& e^{2xt-t^{2}} = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty }H_{n}(x) \frac{ t^{n}}{n!}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.11)
$$\begin{aligned}& (1-t)^{-\alpha -1} \exp \biggl( - \frac{xt}{1-t} \biggr) =\sum_{n=0} ^{\infty }L_{n}^{\alpha }(x) t^{n} \quad (\alpha >-1), \end{aligned}$$
(1.12)
$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl(1-2xt+t^{2}\bigr)^{- \frac{1}{2}} = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty }P_{n}(x) t^{n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.13)
$$\begin{aligned}& \frac{1}{(1-2xt+t^{2})^{\lambda }} = \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }C_{n}^{( \lambda )}(x) t^{n} \quad \biggl(\lambda >- \frac{1}{2}, \lambda \neq 0, \vert t \vert < 1, \vert x \vert \leq 1 \biggr), \end{aligned}$$
(1.14)
$$\begin{aligned}& \frac{\alpha +\beta }{R(1-t+R)^{\alpha }(1+t+R)^{\beta }} = \sum _{n=0} ^{\infty }P_{n}^{(\alpha ,\beta )}(x) t^{n} \quad \bigl( R=\sqrt{1-2xt+t^{2}}, \alpha , \beta >-1 \bigr). \end{aligned}$$
(1.15)
Those special polynomials are also explicitly given as follows:
$$\begin{aligned}& L_{n}(x) = n \sum _{l=0}^{ [\frac{n}{2} ]}\frac{1}{n-l} \binom{n-l}{l} x^{n-2l} \quad (n\geq 1), \end{aligned}$$
(1.16)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] T_{n}(x) &= {}_{2}F_{1} \biggl(-n,n;\frac{1}{2}; \frac{1-x}{2} \biggr) \\ &= \frac{n}{2} \sum_{l=0}^{ [\frac{n}{2} ]}(-1)^{l} \frac{1}{n-l} \binom{n-l}{l} (2x)^{n-2l} \quad (n\geq 1), \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.17)
$$\begin{aligned}& H_{n}(x) = n! \sum _{l=0}^{ [\frac{n}{2} ]} \frac{(-1)^{l} }{l!(n-2l)!} (2x)^{n-2l} \quad (n\geq 0), \end{aligned}$$
(1.18)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] L_{n}^{\alpha }(x) &= \frac{\langle \alpha +1\rangle _{n} }{n!} { _{1}F_{1}} (-n ; \alpha +1; x ) \\ &= \sum_{l=0}^{n} \frac{(-1)^{l} \binom{n+\alpha }{n-l} }{l!} x^{l} \quad (n\geq 0), \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.19)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] P_{n}(x) &= {_{2}F_{1}} \biggl(-n , n +1; 1; \frac{1-x}{2} \biggr) \\ &= \frac{1}{2^{n}} \sum_{l=0}^{ [\frac{n}{2} ]} (-1)^{l} \binom{n}{l} \binom{2n-2l}{n} x^{n-2l} \quad (n\geq 0), \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.20)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] C_{n}^{(\lambda )}(x) &= \binom{n+2\lambda -1}{n} {_{2}F_{1}} \biggl(-n , n +2\lambda ; \lambda + \frac{1}{2}; \frac{1-x}{2} \biggr) \\ &= \sum_{k=0}^{ [\frac{n}{2} ]} (-1)^{k} \frac{\varGamma (n-k+ \lambda )}{\varGamma (\lambda )k!(n-2k)!} (2x)^{n-2k} \quad (n\geq 0), \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.21)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] P_{n}^{(\alpha , \beta )}(x) &= \frac{\langle \alpha +1\rangle _{n}}{n!} {_{2}F_{1}} \biggl(-n , 1+\alpha +\beta + n ;\alpha + 1; \frac{1-x}{2} \biggr) \\ &= \sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{n+\alpha }{n-k} \binom{n+\beta }{k} \biggl( \frac{x-1}{2} \biggr)^{k} \biggl( \frac{x+1}{2} \biggr)^{n-k} \quad (n\geq 0). \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.22)
Next, we would like to mention Rodrigues-type formulas for Hermite and extended Laguerre polynomials and Rodrigues’ formulas for Legendre, Gegenbauer, and Jacobi polynomials.
$$\begin{aligned}& H_{n}(x) = (-1)^{n} e^{x^{2}} \frac{d^{n}}{dx^{n}} e^{-x^{2}}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.23)
$$\begin{aligned}& L_{n}^{\alpha }(x) = \frac{1}{n!} x^{-\alpha } e^{x} \frac{d^{n}}{dx ^{n}} \bigl( e^{-x}x^{n+\alpha } \bigr), \end{aligned}$$
(1.24)
$$\begin{aligned}& P_{n} (x) = \frac{1}{2^{n}n!} \frac{d^{n}}{dx^{n}} \bigl(x^{2} -1 \bigr) ^{n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.25)
$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl(1-x^{2}\bigr)^{\lambda -\frac{1}{2}}C_{n}^{(\lambda ) }(x) = \frac{(-2)^{n}}{n!} \frac{\langle \lambda\rangle _{n}}{\langle n+2\lambda\rangle _{n}} \frac{d ^{n}}{dx^{n}}\bigl(1-x^{2} \bigr)^{n+ \lambda - \frac{1}{2}}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.26)
$$\begin{aligned}& (1-x)^{\alpha }(1+x)^{\beta }P_{n}^{(\alpha , \beta )} (x) = \frac{(-1)^{n}}{2^{n} n!} \frac{d^{n}}{dx^{n}}(1-x)^{n+ \alpha }(1+x)^{n+ \beta }. \end{aligned}$$
(1.27)
The most important properties of the special polynomials in (1.23)–(1.27) are their orthogonalities with respect to various weight functions which are as follows:
$$\begin{aligned}& \int _{-\infty }^{\infty }e^{-x^{2}} H_{n}(x)H_{m}(x) \,dx = 2^{n} n! \sqrt{ \pi } \delta _{m,n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.28)
$$\begin{aligned}& \int _{0}^{\infty }x^{\alpha }e^{-x} L_{n}^{\alpha }(x) L_{m}^{\alpha }(x) \,dx = \frac{1}{n!}\varGamma (\alpha +n+1)\delta _{m,n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.29)
$$\begin{aligned}& \int _{-1}^{1} P_{n}(x) P_{m}(x) \,dx = \frac{2}{2n+1} \delta _{m,n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.30)
$$\begin{aligned}& \int _{-1}^{1} \bigl(1-x^{2} \bigr)^{\lambda -\frac{1}{2}} C_{n}^{(\lambda ) }(x) C_{m}^{(\lambda ) }(x) \,dx = \frac{\pi 2^{1-2\lambda }\varGamma (n+ 2 \lambda )}{n!(n+\lambda )\varGamma (\lambda )^{2} } \delta _{m,n}, \end{aligned}$$
(1.31)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] & \int _{-1}^{1} (1-x)^{\alpha }(1+x)^{\beta }P_{n}^{(\alpha , \beta )} (x) P_{m}^{(\alpha , \beta )} (x) \,dx \\ &\quad = \frac{ 2^{\alpha + \beta +1}\varGamma (n+\alpha +1)\varGamma (n+\beta +1) }{(2n+\alpha +\beta +1)\varGamma (n+\alpha +\beta +1) \varGamma (n+1) } \delta _{m,n}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.32)
The sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind in (1.33) and those of Lucas polynomials in (1.34) are the two main objects of study in this paper which are respectively denoted by \(\alpha _{m,r}(x)\) and \(\beta _{m,r}(x)\).
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] \alpha _{m,r} (x) &= \sum _{l=0}^{m} \sum _{i_{1}+ \cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l} \binom{r+l}{r} x^{l} T_{i_{1}}(x) \cdots T_{i_{r+1}}(x) \\ & \quad{} -\sum_{l=0}^{m-2}\sum _{i_{1}+ \cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l-2} \binom{r+l}{r} x ^{l} T_{i_{1}}(x)\cdots T_{i_{r+1}}(x) \quad (m\geq 2, r\geq 1), \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.33)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] \beta _{m,r}(x) &= \sum _{l=0}^{m} \sum _{i_{1}+ \cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l} \binom{r+l}{r} \biggl( \frac{x}{2} \biggr)^{l} L_{i_{1}}(x)\cdots L _{i_{r+1}}(x) \\ & \quad{} +\sum_{l=0}^{m-2}\sum _{i_{1}+ \cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l-2} \binom{r+l}{r} \biggl( \frac{x}{2} \biggr)^{l} L_{i_{1}}(x)\cdots L_{i_{r+1}}(x) \quad (m\geq 2, r\geq 1). \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.34)
Note here that \(\alpha _{m,r}(x)\) and \(\beta _{m,r}(x)\) are polynomials of degree m.
The purpose of this paper is to study the sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind in (1.33) and those of Lucas polynomials in (1.34), and to express each of them as linear combinations of Hermite, extended Laguerre, Legendre, Gegenbauer, and Jacobi polynomials. These will be done by explicit computations with the help of Propositions 2.1 and 2.2 in the next section.
Now, we state our main results of this paper, namely Theorems 1.1 and 1.2.
Theorem 1.1
Let
m, r
be any integers with
\(m\geq 2\), \(r\geq 1\). Then we have the following identities:
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\sum_{l=0}^{m} \sum_{i_{1}+\cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l} \binom{r+l}{r} x^{l} T_{i_{1}}(x) \cdots T_{i_{r+1}}(x) \\ &\quad\quad{} - \sum_{l=0}^{m-2} \sum _{i_{1}+\cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l-2} \binom{r+l}{r} x ^{l} T_{i_{1}}(x) \cdots T_{i_{r+1}}(x) \\ &\quad = \frac{(m+r)!}{r!}\sum_{j=0}^{ [ \frac{m}{2} ]} \frac{ {_{1}F_{1}}(-j; 1-m-r;-1 )}{j!(m-2j)!} H_{m-2j}(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.35)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = \frac{(m+r)2^{m}}{r!} \sum _{k=0}^{m} \frac{ (-1)^{k}}{ \varGamma ( \alpha +k+1) } \\ & \quad\quad {} \times \sum_{l=0}^{ [ \frac{m-k}{2} ]} \frac{ (- \frac{1}{4} )^{l} (m+r-1-l)! \varGamma (m+\alpha +1-2l)}{l!(m-k-2l)!} L_{k}^{\alpha }(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.36)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = \frac{(m+r)!}{r!} \sum _{j=0}^{ [ \frac{m}{2} ]} \frac{ (2m-4j+1)}{j! (m-j+ \frac{1}{2} )_{m-j}} \\ &\quad \quad{} \times {_{2}F_{1}} \biggl(-j, j-m- \frac{1}{2};1-m-r;1 \biggr) P_{m-2j}(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.37)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = \frac{\varGamma (\lambda )(m+r)!}{r!} \sum _{j=0}^{ [ \frac{m}{2} ]} \frac{ (m+\lambda -2j)}{j!\varGamma (m+ \lambda +1-j)} \\ &\quad \quad{} \times {_{2}F_{1}}(-j, j-m- \lambda ; 1-m-r;1) C_{m-2j}^{(\lambda )}(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.38)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = \frac{(m+r)(-2)^{m}}{r!} \sum _{k=0}^{m} \frac{(-2)^{k} \varGamma (k+ \alpha +\beta +1)}{\varGamma (2k+\alpha +\beta +1)} \\ &\quad \quad{} \times \sum_{l=0}^{ [ \frac{m-k}{2} ]} \frac{ (- \frac{1}{4} )^{l} (m+r-1-l)!}{l!(m-k-2l)!} \\ &\quad \quad{} \times {_{2}F_{1}}(k+2l-m,k+\beta +1; 2k+ \alpha +\beta +2;2) P_{k} ^{(\alpha ,\beta ) }(x). \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.39)
Theorem 1.2
Let
m, r
be any integers with
\(m\geq 2\), \(r\geq 1\). Then we have the following identities:
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\sum_{l=0}^{m} \sum_{i_{1}+\cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l} \binom{r+l}{r} \biggl( \frac{x}{2} \biggr)^{l} L_{i_{1}}(x) \cdots L_{i_{r+1}}(x) \\ & \quad\quad{} +\sum_{l=0}^{m-2} \sum _{i_{1}+\cdots +i_{r+1}=m-l-2} \binom{r+l}{r} \biggl( \frac{x}{2} \biggr)^{l} L_{i_{1}}(x) \cdots L_{i_{r+1}}(x) \\ &\quad = \frac{2^{r+1-m}(m+r)!}{r!}\sum_{j=0}^{ [ \frac{m}{2} ]} \frac{{_{1}F_{1}}(-j, 1-m-r;4 )}{j!(m-2j)!} H_{m-2j}(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.40)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = \frac{2^{r+1} (m+r)}{r!} \sum _{k=0}^{m} \frac{ (-1)^{k}}{ \varGamma ( \alpha +k+1) } \\ &\quad \quad{} \times \sum_{l=0}^{ [ \frac{m-k}{2} ]} \frac{(m+r-1-l)! \varGamma (m+\alpha +1-2l)}{l!(m-k-2l)!} L_{k}^{\alpha }(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.41)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = \frac{2^{r-m}(m+r)!}{r!} \sum _{j=0}^{ [ \frac{m}{2} ]} \frac{(2m-4j+1)}{ j! (m-j+ \frac{1}{2} )_{m-j+1}} \\ & \quad\quad {} \times {_{2}F_{1}}\biggl(-j, j-m- \frac{1}{2};1-m-r;-4 \biggr) P_{m-2j}(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.42)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] &\quad = 2^{r+1-m} \varGamma ( \lambda )\frac{(m+r)!}{r!} \sum_{j=0}^{ [ \frac{m}{2} ]} \frac{ (m+\lambda -2j)}{j!\varGamma (m+ \lambda +1-j)} \\ &\quad \quad{} \times {_{2}F_{1}}(-j, j-m- \lambda ; 1-m-r;-4) C_{m-2j}^{(\lambda )}(x) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(1.43)
$$\begin{aligned}& \quad = \frac{(-1)^{m} 2^{r+1} (m+r)}{r!} \sum_{k=0}^{m} \frac{(-2)^{k} \varGamma (k+\alpha +\beta +1)}{\varGamma (2k+\alpha +\beta +1)} \\& \quad \quad{} \times \sum_{l=0}^{ [ \frac{m-k}{2} ]} \frac{(m+r-1-l)! }{l!(m-k-2l)!} \\& \quad \quad{} \times {_{2}F_{1}}(k+2l-m,k+\beta +1; 2k+ \alpha +\beta +2;2) P_{k} ^{(\alpha ,\beta ) }(x). \end{aligned}$$
(1.44)
Before moving on to the next section, we want to mention some of the previous works that are related to the present results. Along the same line as this paper, certain sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the first, second, third, and fourth kinds, and of Legendre, Laguerre, Fibonacci, and Lucas polynomials are expressed in terms of all four kinds of Chebyshev polynomials in [11, 16, 19, 24, 26]. Also, certain sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the second, third, and fourth kinds, and of Fibonacci, Legendre, and Laguerre polynomials are expressed in terms of Hermite, extended Laguerre, Legendre, Gegenbauer, and Jacobi polynomials in [5, 12, 23, 27]. Also, we would like to remark here that some Appell and non-Appell polynomials are also expressed as linear combinations of Bernoulli polynomials. Indeed, for Appell polynomials, some sums of finite products of Bernoulli and Euler polynomials are expressed in terms of Bernoulli polynomials in [1, 20]. As for non-Appell polynomials, some sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the first, second, third, and fourth kinds, and of Legendre, Laguerre, Genocchi, Fibonacci, and Lucas polynomials are expressed in terms of Bernoulli polynomials in [15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25]. Actually, all of these were obtained by deriving Fourier series expansions for the functions closely related to such sums of finite products of special polynomials.
Finally, we let the reader look at the papers [3, 6] for some related works.