Connection Problem for Sums of Finite Products of Chebyshev Polynomials of the Third and Fourth Kinds

: This paper treats the connection problem of expressing sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the third and fourth kinds in terms of five classical orthogonal polynomials. In fact, by carrying out explicit computations each of them are expressed as linear combinations of Hermite, generalized Laguerre, Legendre, Gegenbauer, and Jacobi polynomials which involve some terminating hypergeometric functions 2 F 0 , 2 F 1 , and 3 F 2 .


Introduction and Preliminaries
In this section, we will recall some basic facts about relevant orthogonal polynomials that will be needed throughout this paper. For this, we will first fix some notations. For any nonnegative integer n, the falling factorial polynomials (x) n and the rising factorial polynomials < x > n are respectively given by (x) n = x(x − 1) · · · (x − n + 1), (n ≥ 1), (x) 0 = 1, The two factorial polynomials are evidently related by (−1) n (x) n =< −x > n , (−1) n < x > n = (−x) n .
We are now ready to state some basic facts about Chebyshev polynomials of the third kind V n (x), those of the fourth kind W n (x), Hermite polynomials H n (x), generalized (extended) Laguerre polynomials L α n (x), Legendre polynomials P n (x), Gegenbauer polynomials C (λ) n (x), and Jacobi polynomials P (α,β) n . Chebyshev polynomials are diversely used in approximation theory and numerical analysis, Hermite polynomials appear as the eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics, Laguerre polynomials have important applications to the solution of Schrödinger's equation for the hydrogen atom, Legendre polynomials can be used to write the Coulomb potential as a series, Gegenbauer polynomials play an important role in the constructive theory of spherical functions and Jacobi polynomials occur in the solution to the equations of motion of the symmetric top. All the necessary facts on those special polynomials can be found in [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. For the full accounts of this fascinating area of orthogonal polynomials, the reader may refer to [10][11][12][13].
The above special polynomials are given in terms of generating functions by Explicit expressions for the above special polynomials are as in the following: Next, we state Rodrigues-type formulas for Hermite and generalized Laguerre polynomials and Rodrigues' formulas for Legendre, Gegenbauer and Jacobi polynomials.
The last thing we want to mention is the orthogonalities with respect to various weight functions enjoyed by Hermite, generalized Laguerre, Legendre, Gegenbauer and Jacobi polynomials.
For convenience, let us put We observe here that both γ n,r (x) and E n,r (x) have degree n.
In this paper, we will consider the connection problem of expressing the sums of finite products in (33) and (34) as linear combinations of H n (x), L α n (x), P n (x), C n (x), and P (α,β) n (x). These will be done by performing explicit computations based on Proposition 1. We observe here that the formulas in Proposition 1 follow from their orthogonalities, Rodrigues' and Rodrigues-type formulas and integration by parts.
Our main results are the following Theorems 1 and 2.
Theorem 1. Let n, r be any integers with n ≥ 0, r ≥ 1. Then we have the following.
Theorem 2. Let n, r be any integers with n ≥ 0, r ≥ 1. Then we have the following.
Before closing the section, we are going to mention some of previous results on the related connection problems. The papers [14][15][16] treat the connection problem of expressing sums of finite products of Bernoulli, Euler and Genocchi polynomials in terms of Bernoulli polynomials. In fact, they were carried out by deriving Fourier series expansions for the functions closely related to those sums of finite products. Moreover, the same was done for the sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind and of Fibonacci polynomials in [17].
Along the same line as the present paper, sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind and Fibonacci polynomials were expressed in [18] as linear combinations of the n (x), and P (α,β) n (x). Also, the connection problem of expressing in terms of all kinds of Chebyshev polynomials were done for sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the second, third and fourth kinds and of Fibonacci, Legendre and Laguerre polynomials in [19][20][21].
Finally, we let the reader refer to [22,23] for some applications of Chebyshev polynomials.

Proof of Theorem 1
First, we will state Propositions 1 and 2 that will be needed in showing Theorems 1 and 2.  [7]. They can be derived from their orthogonalities in (28)-(32), Rodrigues-type and Rodrigues' formulas in (23)-(27) and integration by parts.
be a polynomial of degree n. Then we have the following.

Proof. (a) This is an easy exercise.
(c) This follows from (b) with r replaced by r + s. (b) This follows from the change of variable 1 + x = 2y and (5).
The following lemma can be obtained by differentiating (9), as was shown in [24]. Lemma 1. Let n, r be integers with n ≥ 0, r ≥ 1. Then we have the following identity.
From (16), we see that the rth derivative of V n (x) is given by Especially, we have Now, we are ready to prove Theorem 1. As (38) and (39) can be shown similarly to (43) and (44) in the next section, we will show only (35), (36) and (37). With γ n,r (x) as in (33), we let Then, from (a) of Proposition 1, (45), (47), and integration by parts k times, we obtain Before proceeding further, by making use of (a) in Proposition 2, we note that From (48)-(50), and after simplifications, we have This shows (35) of Theorem 1. Next, we let Then, from (b) of Proposition 1, (45), (47) and integration by parts k times, we get Combining (52)-(53), we finally have This completes the proof for (36) of Theorem 1. Finally, let us put Then, from (c) of Proposition 1, (45), (47) and integration by parts k times, we have By making use of (c) in Proposition 2 and after simplifications, from (56) we obtain From (55) and (57), we get This proves (37) of Theorem 1.

Proof of Theorem 2
Here we will show only (43) and (44) in Theorem 2, as (40)-(42) can be shown analogously to the proofs for (35)-(37), respectively. The following can be derived by differentiating the Equation (10) and is stated in [24]. Lemma 2. Let n, r be integers with n ≥ 0, r ≥ 1. Then we have the following identity.

Conclusions
In this paper, we considered sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the third and fourth kinds and expressed each of them in terms of five orthogonal polynomials. Indeed, by explicit computations we expressed each of them as linear combinations of Hermite, generalized Laguerre, Legendre, Gegenbauer and Jacobi polynomials which involve some terminating hypergeometric functions. This can be viewed as a generalization of the classical linearization problem. In general, the linearization problem deals with determining the coefficients in the expansion of the products of two polynomials a m (x) and b n (x) in terms of an arbitrary polynomial sequence {p k (x)} k≥0 : a m (x)b n (x) = m+n ∑ k=0 c mn (k)p k (x).
Those sums of finite products were also represented by all kinds of Chebyshev polynomials in [20]. In addition, the same had been done for sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kinds, Fibonacci polynomials, Legendre polynomials, Laguerre polynomials and Lucas polynomials.
Author Contributions: T.K. and D.S.K. conceived the framework and structured the whole paper; T.K. wrote the paper; J.K. typed; D.V.D. checked for typos; D.S.K.completed the revision of the article.