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In mathematics, the Rogers–Szegő polynomials are a family of polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle introduced by Szegő (1926), who was inspired by the continuous q-Hermite polynomials studied by Leonard James Rogers. They are given by

${\displaystyle h_{n}(x;q)=\sum _{k=0}^{n}{\frac {(q;q)_{n}}{(q;q)_{k}(q;q)_{n-k}}}x^{k}}$

where (q;q)_n is the descending q-Pochhammer symbol.

Furthermore, the ${\displaystyle h_{n}(x;q)}$ satisfy (for ${\displaystyle n\geq 1}$) the recurrence relation^[1]

${\displaystyle h_{n+1}(x;q)=(1+x)h_{n}(x;q)+x(q^{n}-1)h_{n-1}(x;q)}$

with ${\displaystyle h_{0}(x;q)=1}$ and ${\displaystyle h_{1}(x;q)=1+x}$.

• Gasper, George; Rahman, Mizan (2004), Basic hypergeometric series, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 96 (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-83357-8, MR 2128719
• Szegő, Gábor (1926), "Beitrag zur theorie der thetafunktionen", Sitz Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Phys. Math. Ki., XIX: 242–252, Reprinted in his collected papers

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