Combinatorial and analytic properties of the n-dimensional Hermite polynomials

Abstract

We investigate some combinatorial and analytic properties of the n-dimensional Hermite polynomials introduced by Hermite in the late 19-th century. We derive combinatorial interpretations and recurrence relations for these polynomials. We also establish a new linear generating function and a Kibble–Slepian formula for the n-dimensional Hermite polynomials which generalize the Kibble–Slepian formula for the univariate Hermite polynomials and the Poisson kernel (Mehler formula) for the n-dimensional Hermite polynomials.