Chebyshev, Legendre, Hermite and other orthonormal polynomials in D-dimensions

Abstract

We propose a general method to construct symmetric tensor polynomials in the D-dimensional Euclidean space which are orthonormal under a general weight. The D-dimensional Hermite polynomials are a particular case of the present ones for the case of a gaussian weight. Hence we obtain generalizations of the Legendre and of the Chebyshev polynomials in D dimensions that reduce to the respective well-known orthonormal polynomials in D=1 dimensions. We also obtain new D-dimensional polynomials orthonormal under other weights, such as the Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein, Graphene equilibrium distribution functions and the Yukawa potential. We calculate the series expansion of an arbitrary function in terms of the new polynomials up to the fourth order and define orthonormal multipoles. The explicit orthonormalization of the polynomials up to the fifth order (N from 0 to 4) reveals an increasing number of orthonormalization equations that matches exactly the number of polynomial coefficients indication the correctness of the present procedure.