glaguerre.recurrences: Recurrence relations for generalized Laguerre polynomials

Description

This function returns a data frame with \(n + 1\) rows and four named columns containing the coefficient vectors c, d, e and f of the recurrence relations for the order \(k\) generalized Laguerre polynomial, \(L_n^{\left( \alpha \right)} \left( x \right)\) and for orders \(k = 0,\;1,\; \ldots ,\;n\).

Usage

glaguerre.recurrences(n, alpha, normalized=FALSE)

Arguments

integer value for the highest polynomial order

alpha

numeric value for the polynomial parameter

normalized

boolean value which, if TRUE, returns recurrence relations for normalized polynomials

Value

A data frame with the recurrence relation parameters.

References

Abramowitz, M. and I. A. Stegun, 1968. Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.

Courant, R., and D. Hilbert, 1989. Methods of Mathematical Physics, John Wiley, New York, NY.

Szego, G., 1939. Orthogonal Polynomials, 23, American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, Providence, RI.

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
###
### generate the recurrences data frame for 
### the normalized generalized Laguerre polynomials
### of orders 0 to 10.  the polynomial parameter value is 1.0.
###
normalized.r <- glaguerre.recurrences( 10, 1, normalized=TRUE )
print( normalized.r )
###
### generate the recurrences data frame for 
### the unnormalized generalized Laguerre polynomials
### of orders 0 to 10.  the polynomial parameter value is 1.0.
###
unnormalized.r <- glaguerre.recurrences( 10, 1, normalized=FALSE )
print( unnormalized.r )
# }