Paper 1, Section I, D
Part IB, 2016
(a) What are real orthogonal polynomials defined with respect to an inner product What does it mean for such polynomials to be monic?
(b) Real monic orthogonal polynomials, , of degree , are defined with respect to the inner product,
where is a positive weight function. Show that such polynomials obey the three-term recurrence relation,
for appropriate and which should be given in terms of inner products.