An analogue of the big q-Jacobi polynomials in the algebra of symmetric functions

Abstract

It is well known how to construct a system of symmetric orthogonal polynomials in an arbitrary finite number of variables from an arbitrary system of orthogonal polynomials on the real line. In the special case of the big q-Jacobi polynomials, the number of variables can be made infinite. As a result, in the algebra of symmetric functions, there arises an inhomogeneous basis whose elements are orthogonal with respect to some probability measure. This measure is defined on a certain space of infinite point configurations and hence determines a random point process.