Product formulas, hypergroups, and the Jacobi polynomials

Product Formulas and Associated Hypergroups for Orthogonal Polynomials on the Simplex and on a Parabolic Biangle

Explicit product formulas are obtained for families of multivariate polynomials which are orthogonal on simplices and on a parabolic biangle in R. These product formulas are shown to give rise to measure algebras which are hypergroups. The article also includes an elementary proof that the Michael topology for the space of compact subsets of a topological space (which is used in the definition ...

Generalized Commutative Association Schemes, Hypergroups, and Positive Product Formulas

It is well known that finite commutative association schemes in the sense of the monograph of Bannai and Ito lead to finite commutative hypergroups with positive dual convolutions and even dual hypergroup structures. In this paper we present several discrete generalizations of association schemes which also lead to associated hypergroups. We show that discrete commutative hypergroups associated...

A Product Formula for Jacobi Polynomials

Generalized Hypergroups and Orthogonal Polynomials

We study in this paper a generalization of the notion of a discrete hypergroup with particular emphasis on the relation with systems of orthogonal polynomials. The concept of a locally compact hypergroup was introduced by Dunkl [8], Jewett [12] and Spector [25]. It generalizes convolution algebras of measures associated to groups as well as linearization formulae of classical families of orthog...

Generalized hypergroups and orthogonal polynomials

The concept of semi-bounded generalized hypergroups (SBG hypergroups) is developed which are more special then generalized hypergroups introduced by Obata and Wildberger and which are more general then discrete hypergroups or even discrete signed hypergroups. The convolution of measures and functions is studied. In case of commutativity we define the dual objects and prove some basic theorems o...