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16 questions linked to/from Pochhammer symbol of a differential, and hypergeometric polynomials
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Important formulas in combinatorics
Motivation:
The poster for the conference celebrating Noga Alon's 60th birthday, fifteen formulas describing some of Alon's work are presented. (See this post, for the poster, and cash prizes offered ...
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Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why?
Recently, I've become more and more interested in hypergeometric series. One of the things that struck me was how it provides a unified framework for many simpler functions. For instance, we have
$$ \...
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Motivation and physical interpretation of the Laplace transform
Concerning the one-sided Laplace transform,
$$\mathcal{L}\{f\}(s) = \int_0^\infty f(t)e^{-st} dt$$
what is a motivation to come up with that formula? I am particularly interested in "physical&...
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An "analytic continuation" of power series coefficients
Cauchy residue theorem tells us that for a function
$$f(z) = \sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}} a(k) z^k,$$
the coefficient $a(k)$ can be extracted by an integral formula
$$a(k) = \frac{1}{2\pi i}\oint f(z) z^{-...
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Geometric interpretation of the half-derivative?
For $f(x)=x$, the half-derivative of $f$ is
$$\frac{d^{\frac{1}{2}}}{dx^{\frac{1}{2}}} x = 2 \sqrt{\frac{x}{\pi}} \;.$$
Is there some geometric interpretation of (Q1) this specific derivative, and, (...
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Eulerian number identity
The Eulerian number $A(n,m)$ is defined as the number of permutations $\sigma \in S_n$ having precisely $m$ descents, i.e. indices $i$ such that $\sigma(i)>\sigma(i+1)$.
The wikipedia entry on ...
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A question on fractional derivatives
I know practically nothing about fractional calculus so I apologize in advance if the following is a silly question. I already tried on math.stackexchange.
I just wanted to ask if there is a notion of ...
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How are Sheffer polynomials related to Lie theory?
Sheffer polynomials $\{P_n(x)\}$ have generating function $P(x,t) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}P_n(x)t^n=A(t)e^{xu(t)}$.
This form reminds me of the Lie group–Lie algebra correspondence. Is there any ...
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What's the matrix of logarithm of derivative operator ($\ln D$)? What is the role of this operator in various math fields?
Babusci and Dattoli, On the logarithm of the derivative operator, arXiv:1105.5978, gives some great results:
\begin{align*}
(\ln D) 1 & {}= -\ln x -\gamma \\
(\ln D) x^n & {}= x^n (\psi (n+1)-\...
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Differential operator simplification
Does anyone know the explicit formulation for the $q_k$'s in, $$(x+D)^n=\sum_{k=0}^n q_k(x)D^k\ \ \ \ ?$$
I know that $e^{-x^2/2+x}$ is a fixed point of $(x+D)$. I also, know that $$(x+D)H_n(x)e^{-x^...
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Combinatorics for the action of Virasoro / Kac–Schwarz operators: partition polynomials of free probability theory
In the background sections below, I establish the relations among characterizations of the action of Virasoro / Kac–Schwarz operators of 2D gravity models presented in terms of Laurent series by ...
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Connections to physics, geometry, geometric probability theory of Euler's beta integral (function)
Euler"s integral for the beta function $B(s,\alpha) = $ (with $x = 1$)
$$ \frac{(s-1)!(\alpha-1)!}{(s+\alpha-1)!} x^{s+\alpha-1} = \int_0^\infty t^{s-1}\; H(x-t) \; (x-t)^{\alpha-1} dt = \int_0^x ...
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need help on the proof of the Christoffel–Darboux formula of Laguerre Polynomial
I found the Christoffel–Darboux formula of the Laguerre polynomials on wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguerre_polynomials
\begin{align}
K_n^{(\alpha)}(x,y) &:= \frac{1}{\Gamma(\alpha+1)...
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Grothendieck schemes and the Sheffer differential op calculus (Rota, Roman, et al. finite operator calculus)
In "Left differential operators on non-commutative algebras" on p. 4, Michiel Hazewinkel displays "precisely the right definition of differential operator" as
$$D\; X^n = F(\tfrac{...
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A bridge between the algebraic / differential geometry of $\frak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ and the Sheffer-Appell calculus and combinatorics
In "Four examples of Beilinson-Bernstein localization", Anna Romanov introduces the basis
$m_k = \frac{(-1)^k}{k!} \partial^k \delta $
on p. 9, where $\partial$ is a partial derivative and $\...
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