Connection coefficients for ultraspherical polynomials with argument doubling and generalized bispectrality

Abstract: We start by presenting a generalization of a discrete wave equation that is particularly satisfied by the entries of the matrix coefficients of the refinement equation corresponding to the multiresolution analysis of Alpert. The entries are in fact functions of two discrete variables and they can be expressed in terms of the Legendre polynomials. Next, we generalize these functions to the case of the ultraspherical polynomials and show that these new functions obey two generalized eigenvalue problems in each of the two discrete variables, which constitute a generalized bispectral problem. At the end, we make some connections to other problems.