Article
Adv. Math. 333, 796-821 (2018) [DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2018.05.038]

Jacobi Polynomials, Bernstein-type Inequalities and Dispersion Estimates for the Discrete Laguerre Operator

Tom Koornwinder, Aleksey Kostenko, and Gerald Teschl

Abstract
The present paper is about Bernstein-type estimates for Jacobi polynomials and their applications to various branches in mathematics. This is an old topic but we want to add a new wrinkle by establishing some intriguing connections with dispersive estimates for a certain class of Schrödinger equations whose Hamiltonian is given by the generalized Laguerre operator. More precisely, we show that dispersive estimates for the Schrödinger equation associated with the generalized Laguerre operator are connected with Bernstein-type inequalities for Jacobi polynomials. We use known uniform estimates for Jacobi polynomials to establish some new dispersive estimates. In turn, the optimal dispersive decay estimates lead to new Bernstein-type inequalities.

MSC2010: Primary 33C45, 47B36; Secondary 81U30, 81Q05
Keywords: Schrödinger equation, dispersive estimates, Jacobi polynomials

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