{ "id": "1204.5070", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-04-23T14:05:54.000Z", "updated": "2012-11-30T10:01:50.000Z", "title": "The generalized Krawtchouk polynomials and the fifth Painlevé equation", "authors": [ "Lies Boelen", "Galina Filipuk", "Christophe Smet", "Walter Van Assche", "Lun Zhang" ], "comment": "15 pages, 4 figures, references added with more details and explanations, to appear in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "We study the recurrence coefficients of the orthogonal polynomials with respect to a semi-classical extension of the Krawtchouk weight. We derive a coupled discrete system for these coefficients and show that they satisfy the fifth Painlev\\'e equation when viewed as functions of one of the parameters in the weight.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-11-30T10:01:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "34M55", "33E17", "33C47", "42C05", "65Q30" ], "keywords": [ "generalized krawtchouk polynomials", "fifth painleve equation", "orthogonal polynomials", "recurrence coefficients", "krawtchouk weight" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1204.5070B" } } }