A Heterosexual Mehler Formula for the Straight Hermite Polynomials (À La Foata)
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In my invited talk ‘The unreasonable effectiveness of Combinatorics in Orthogonal Polynomials I’, (July 1, 1998, 10:30-11:30 local time), at the IWOP ’98, Léganes, Madrid, (organized by Paco Marcellan and Renato Alvarez-Nodarse), I described, for most of the hour, Dominique Foata’s[F1] gorgeous and seminal proof of Mehler’s formula. As I got carried away in the exposition, I replaced the original abstract ‘vertices’ and ‘edges’ by ‘people’ and ‘relationships’ respectively.
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