Jacobi polynomials and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces

This paper deals with a generating function of the Jacobi polynomials that satisfies the following properties (I) and (II). (I) The generating function is the kernel of an integral operator that is unitary. (II) The image of the unitary operator is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space of analytic functions and the reproducing kernel is given as a special value of the generating function above. A generating function that satisfies (I) is given in Watanabe (1998) [11]. The purpose of this paper is to give a generating function that satisfies (I) and (II). From a group theoretical point of view, a similar construction for zonal spherical functions is given in Watanabe (2006) [12] (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.