On Certain Wronskians of Multiple Orthogonal Polynomials

Symmetry Integrability and Geometry-Methods and Applications

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Lun Zhang¹  Galina Filipuk² 

[1] School of Mathematical Sciences and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Contemporary Applied Mathematics, Fudan University;Faculty of Mathematics, University of Warsaw

关键词: Wronskians;    algebraic Chebyshev systems;    multiple orthogonal polynomials;    moments of the average characteristic polynomials;    multiple orthogonal polynomial ensembles;    Tur´an inequalities;    zeros;   

DOI  :  10.3842/SIGMA.2014.103

来源: National Academy of Science of Ukraine

【 摘 要 】

We consider determinants of Wronskian type whose entries are multiple orthogonal polynomials associated with a path connecting two multi-indices. By assuming that the weight functions form an algebraic Chebyshev (AT) system, we show that the polynomials represented by the Wronskians keep a constant sign in some cases, while in some other cases oscillatory behavior appears, which generalizes classical results for orthogonal polynomials due to Karlin and Szegő. There are two applications of our results. The first application arises from the observation that the $m$-th moment of the average characteristic polynomials for multiple orthogonal polynomial ensembles can be expressed as a Wronskian of the type II multiple orthogonal polynomials. Hence, it is straightforward to obtain the distinct behavior of the moments for odd and even $m$ in a special multiple orthogonal ensemble - the AT ensemble. As the second application, we derive some Turán type inequalities for multiple Hermite and multiple Laguerre polynomials (of two kinds). Finally, we study numerically the geometric configuration of zeros for the Wronskians of these multiple orthogonal polynomials. We observe that the zeros have regular configurations in the complex plane, which might be of independent interest.

【 授权许可】

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