Solutions of the Al-Salam–Chihara and allied moment problems

Abstract

We study the moment problem associated with the Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials in some detail providing raising (creation) and lowering (annihilation) operators, Rodrigues formula, and a second-order operator equation involving the Askey–Wilson operator. A new infinite family of weight functions is also given. Sufficient conditions for functions to be weight functions for the [Formula: see text]-Hermite, [Formula: see text]-Laguerre and Stieltjes–Wigert polynomials are established and used to give new infinite families of absolutely continuous orthogonality measures for each of these polynomials.