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THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
(iii) ~orkz-kl+; <O,pn =i(k2-kl+;+n),n=O,
...,
no, where
no is the largest integer such that -ipn,
<
0,
Observe that for
m
>
n we have q,(pn)
=
0.
For
m
5
n
it
follows from the way qm is calculated in Proposition 5.18, that
qm(~n)
=
h(~n)qm(~n).
For a continuous function
f
E
M
we define the linear operator
F
:
M
-t
L2
(R,
w (x)dx) by
We call
3:
the continuous Hahn integral transform.
Theorem
5.27.
The continuous Hahn integral transfrom
F
:
M
-+
L2(R, w(x)dx) is unitary and its inverse is given
by
Proof. For case (i) this follows from Propositions 5.16, 5.19 and 5.20.
For case (ii) we only have to check that Propositions 5.12 and 5.14
still hold with the discrete mass point in p
=
p, added to the integral.
From Propositions 5.23, 5.24 and 5.25 we find
Now the proof for case (ii) is completely analogous to the proof of case
6)
For case (iii) injectivity and surjectivity of
F
can be proved in the
same way
as
case (i). We check that
F
is an isometry. The continuous