Racah Polynomial

A hypergeometric class of orthogonal polynomials defined by

(1)

for , 1, ..., , where  is a generalized hypergeometric function,

(2)

and one of the following holds

(3)

with  a nonnegative integer.

REFERENCES:

Koekoek, R. and Swarttouw, R. F. "Racah." §1.2 in The Askey-Scheme of Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials and its -Analogue. Delft, Netherlands: Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics Report 98-17, pp. 26-29, 1998.