1. Introduction
Hermite polynomials are among the most applicable special functions. These polynomials arise in diverse fields of probability, physics, numerical analysis, and signal processing. As an example, in quantum mechanics, eigenfunction solutions to quantum harmonic oscillator are described in terms of Hermite polynomials. Bivariate Hermite polynomials are useful in algebraic geometry and two-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator [
3,
4,
5]. Respect to the field of applications Hermite polynomials in one variable are divided into probabilist and physicist versions. In present paper we focus on one and two dimensional probabilist Hermite polynomials. We prove the symmetries of associated differential equations are compatible with
algebra. By introducing isomorphic Lie algebras whose Cartan sub-algebras are the Hermite differential operators, applying Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula yields new relations for one variable and bivariate Hermite polynomials. Without exception, all known generating functions for Hermite polynomials contains a factorial term in denominator. We introduce a new generating function without factorial denominator.
2. Lie algebra of Hermite polynomials of one variable
Probabilistic Hermite polynomials, presented as:
are the solutions to Hermite differential equations:
where
denoted as
and
as Hermite differential operator. This is an eigenvalue problem with positive integer eigenvalues
.
The equation (1) is the transformation of basis
under the action of operator
which is compatible with Rodrigues’ formula and results in probabilistic Hermite polynomials
. The monomials
expand a polynomial vector space
. The operator
changes the basis
into the basis
. Let
denote the linear transformation that maps vector space
onto itself. We present isomorphic Lie algebras to
defined by
module on vector space
which is a linear map
defined by
that preserves the commutator relations of
algebra [
1,
2].
This representation is module on vector space .
First, we review the structure of irreducible vector field representation of
. The generators of this algebra in matrix representation are as follows:
The commutation relations for this representation of
are:
Let define a representation of
as its module on
that preserves commutation relations by differential operators as its generators [
1]:
With the same commutation relations
The Cartan sub-algebra
produces a decomposition of representation space:
are the eigenspace (eigenfunction) of generator
as Cartan sub-algebra of
and provide the solutions to the related differential equation.
As an example, monomials are eigenfunctions or eigenspaces of generator , realized as eigenspace. The eigenvalues in most cases equals an integer or as we observe in Hermite, Laguerre and Legendre differential equations.
We search for a Lie algebra
isomorphic to
algebra that its generators to be defined based on Hermite differential operators
. Here we apply the transformation operator
as described in (1) for Hermite polynomials to derive similarity transformations (conjugation) of
bases as follows:
Respect to a theorem in Lie algebra theory, these generators constitute an isomorphic Lie algebra to
with similar commutation relations. We call this algebra as “ Hermite operator Lie algebra”. Due to the equation (1) that implies the change of basis
to
, the operator
with eigenfunctions
corresponds the operator
with eigenfunctions
and common eigenvalues
through a similarity transformation described by
Generator simply be calculated as .
Proposition 1. For
we have:
Proof: by Equation (11) we have the identity:
Now for
from (10) we have:
By equations (13), (14) and (15) we get
and for generators of this Lie algebra, we have:
where
denotes the Hermite differential operator i.e.,
. The commutation relations coincide the Lie algebra
and are as follows:
Proposition 2.
Hermite polynomials, satisfies the equation:
proof: Due to a theorem for BCH formula, if
for
, we have:
The BCH formula for
and
generators gives:
The term in omitted because it has no role in commutation relation .
Multiplying both side by
For
we obtain
Substituting in equation (21) and replacing Hermite differential operator
with
gives
It is notable to compare this equation with
3. Bivariate Hermite Polynomials
An ordinary definition for bivariate Hermite polynomials is as follows [
3,
4].
With
and
These polynomials satisfy the partial differential equation:
Let denote
as the differential operator in equation (2)
If we denote
and
, with the identities:
The equation (28) converts to
We denote the new polynomials as
If these polynomials are assumed as linearly independent basis, the transformation from these basis to
is as follows:
Therefor the corresponding differential operator with
as its eigenfunctions could be derived by similarity transformation:
denoted as the differential operator given in eigenvalue equation (29). Thus, we have
Then due to commutativity of we have
and
we get
Respect to (11) and (12) this reduces to
Therefor the differential operator
satisfy the differential equation:
Its eigenvalues are the same as the differential equation (24), because and related by the similarity relation (35).
4. Bivariate Hermite Polynomials as Modules
4.1. In this section we introduce an associated Lie algebra of bivariate Hermite differential operator. First, we search for the compatible
algebra in terms of differential operators of two variables. Respect to equations (6) and (11) the Cartan sub-algebra of
can be taken as:
The additional term
has been chosen to satisfy the required commutation relations. The other generators are proposed as
These generators satisfy the commutation relations of
:
By substituting
, the differential operator
satisfies the differential equation:
Respect (39) and (40) we have:
Thus are eigenfunctions or weight vectors of as Cartan sub-algebra of .
According to the equation
Respect to Equation (11) and (12), similarity transformation of generators
,
and
by operator
yields:
The bivariate Hermite polynomials are eigenfunctions of with eigenvalues .
Lowering operator in this algebra is given by:
represents the Cartan subalgebra of related Lie algebra. On of the commutator relations is
4.2. Due to a theorem for BCH formula, if then we have:
we can modify
and
in such a way that BCH formula simplified to equations that gives rise to new relations of Hermite polynomials. If we assume
and
in a modified from
Respect to the commutation relation
Similarity transformation of both side with
yields
Where we used
and
and
where
and
denoted as
and
respectively. These are Hermite differential operators with single variable. Substitution of
and
through equation (31) gives:
By changing the variables
we have
Taking into account the identities
we get
Thus, the operator acts as a shift operator for .
- b.
Applying the Equation (54)
Multiplying both side by
gives
Comparing this equation with
- c.
Multiplying both side by from left and from right yields.
This equation could be read as:.
The sum on the right side is a version of
with:
5. General form of differential operator representation of and BCH formula
Denote
and its integers exponents form a set
of independent basis in polynomial space. Introducing the differential operator generators that construct an isomorphic algebra to
, defined as
It is straight forward to prove these bases satisfy the commutation relations of in (7).
We apply the specific case of BCH formula [
6]:
When the generators
and
satisfy the commutation relation
with
.
Due to the commutation relation
with
, and
The commutation relation becomes:
Then the BCH formula reads as:
inverse of both side yields
Example :
For algebra of Laguerre differential operator, the equivalent generators to
and
are:
where the Laguerre differential operator
whose eigenfunctions are Laguerre polynomials is defined as:
commutation relation reads as:
Thus, for BCH formula we have:
6. A new generating function for Hermite polynomials
This series is convergent for .
Multiplying two sides by
gives
Let denote
, then the equation ( ) reads as
The equation (96) converts to
By the identity for n-th derivative of
i.e.
By
and identities
,
On the other hand, we have:
Calculation of the integral results in:
Substitution of
, gives the explicit closed form of
in terms of
and
.
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