On generalized Vietoris’ number sequences

• Autor(a) principal: Cação, Isabel
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Falcão, M. I., Malonek, Helmuth R.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/62821
• topic: Generating function; Hypercomplex Appell polynomials; Recurrence relation; Vietoris’ number sequence; Ciências Naturais::Matemáticas; Science & Technology

Recently, by using methods of hypercomplex function theory, the authors have shown that a certain sequence S of rational numbers (Vietoris’ sequence) combines seemingly disperse subjects in real, complex and hypercomplex analysis. This sequence appeared for the first time in a theorem by Vietoris (1958) with important applications in harmonic analysis (Askey/Steinig, 1974) and in the theory of stable holomorphic functions (Ruscheweyh/Salinas, 2004). A non-standard application of Clifford algebra tools for defining Clifford-holomorphic sequences of Appell polynomials was the hypercomplex context in which a one-parametric generalization S(n),n≥1, of S (corresponding to n=2) surprisingly showed up. Without relying on hypercomplex methods this paper demonstrates how purely real methods also lead to S(n). For arbitrary n≥1 the generating function is determined and for n=2 a particular case of a recurrence relation similar to that known for Catalan numbers is proved.