In this paper, an approximate formula of the fractional derivatives (Caputo sense) is derived. The proposed formula is based on the generalized Laguerre polynomials. Special attention is given to study the convergence analysis of the presented formula. The spectral Laguerre collocation method is presented for solving a class of fractional optimal control problems (FOCPs). The properties of Lagu...

In 2009, Gómez-Ullate, Kamran, and Milson characterized all sequences of polynomials {pn}n=1, with deg pn = n ≥ 1, that are eigenfunctions of a secondorder differential equation and are orthogonal with respect to a positive Borel measure on the real line having finite moments of all orders. Up to a complex linear change of variable, the only such sequences are theX1-Laguerre and theX1-Jacobi po...

For α = n− 1, n ∈ N\{0}, the operator D2 is the radial part of the sub-Laplacian on the Heisenberg groupHn (see [2, 4]). These operators have gained considerable interest in various fields of mathematics (see [1, 4]). They give rise to generalizations of many two-variable analytic structures like the Laguerre-Fourier transform L, the Laguerre-convolution product, the dispersion and the Gaussian...

A coupled Legendre-Laguerre spectral element method is proposed for the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains. The method combines advantages of the high accuracy of the Laguerre-spectral method for unbounded domains and the geometric flexibility of the spectral-element method. Rigorous stability and error analysis for the Stokes problem is carried out. Numerical results indic...

In 2009, Gómez–Ullate, Kamran, and Milson characterized all sequences of polynomials {pn}n=1, with deg pn = n ≥ 1, that are eigenfunctions of a second– order differential equation and are orthogonal with respect to a positive Borel measure on the real line having finite moments of all orders. Up to a complex linear change of variable, the only such sequences are the X1-Laguerre and the X1-Jacob...

We construct flat Laguerre planes that admit the universal covering group of SL2R, extended by a factor R, as a group of automorphisms. These planes contain the affine Moulton planes as derived planes, and they are constructed by gluing together two copies of a Moulton plane, folded up along their fixed lines. The action of the Moulton group carries over (modulo Z2) to the Laguerre planes, and ...

The radial part of the wave function of an electron in a Coulomb potential is the product of a Laguerre polynomial and an exponential with the variable scaled by a factor depending on the degree. This note presents an elementary proof of the orthogonality of wave functions with differing energy levels. It is also shown that this is the only other natural orthogonality for Laguerre polynomials. ...

Pressing questions in cosmology such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy can be addressed using large galaxy surveys, which measure the positions, properties and redshifts of galaxies in order to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. We review the Fourier-Laguerre transform, a novel transform in 3D spherical coordinates which is based on spherical harmonics combined with dampe...

We consider ensembles of Gaussian (Hermite) and Wishart (Laguerre) N ×N hermitian matrices. We study the effect of finite rank perturbations of these ensembles by a source term. The rank r of the perturbation corresponds to the number of non-null eigenvalues of the source matrix. In the perturbed ensembles, the correlation functions can be written in terms of kernels. We show that for all N , t...

A Laguerre tessellation is a generalization of a Voronoi tessellation where the proximity between points is measured via a power distance rather than the Euclidean distance. Laguerre tessellations have found significant applications in materials science, providing improved modeling of (poly)crystalline microstructures and grain growth. There exist efficient algorithms to construct Laguerre tess...