We introduce a family of polynomials that generalizes the Bell polynomials, in connection with the combinatorics of the central moments of the Poisson distribution. We show that these polynomials are dual of the Charlier polynomials by the Stirling transform, and we study the resulting combinatorial identities for the number of partitions of a set into subsets of size at least 2.

We derive asymptotics for the Lp-norms and information entropies of Charlier polynomials. The results differ to some extent from previously studied cases, for example, the Lp-norms show a peculiar behaviour with two tresholds. Some complications arise because the measure involved is discrete.

In [41] H. Widom derived formulae expressing correlation functions of orthogonal and symplectic ensembles of random matrices in terms of orthogonal polyno-mials. We obtain similar results for discrete ensembles with rational discrete logarithmic derivative, and compute explicitly correlation kernels associated to the classical Meixner and Charlier weights.

The asymptotic behaviour of the Charlier polynomials C (a) n (x) as nQ. is examined. These polynomials satisfy a discrete orthogonality relation and, unlike classical orthogonal polynomials, do not satisfy a second-order linear differential equation with respect to the independent variable x. As such, previous results on their asymptotic behaviour have been restricted to integral methods and co...

In this paper we obtain sharp bounds for the zeros of classical orthogonal polynomials of a discrete variable, considered as functions of a parameter, by using a theorem of A. Markov and the so-called HellmannFeynman theorem. Comparisons with previous results for zeros of Hahn, Meixner, Kravchuk and Charlier polynomials are also presented.

We prove a formula for the linearization coefficients of the general Sheffer polynomials, which unifies all the special known results for Hermite, Charlier, Laguerre, Meixner and MeixnerPollaczek polynomials. Furthermore, we give a new and explicit real version of the corresponding formula for Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials. Our proof is based on some explicit bijections and sign-reversing weigh...

Convergent expansions are derived for three types of orthogonal polynomials: Charlier, Laguerre and Jacobi. The expansions have asymptotic properties for large values of the degree. The expansions are given in terms of functions that are special cases of the given polynomials. The method is based on expanding integrals in one or two points of the complex plane, these points being saddle points ...