On Determinant Expansions for Hankel Operators

Abstract Let w be a semiclassical weight that is generic in Magnus’s sense, and (pn)n=0∞ ({p_n})_{n = 0}^\infty the corresponding sequence of orthogonal polynomials. We express the Christoffel–Darboux kernel as a sum of products of Hankel integral operators. For ψ ∈ L∞ (iℝ), let W(ψ) be the Wiener-Hopf operator with symbol ψ. We give sufficient conditions on ψ such that 1/ det W(ψ) W(ψ−1) = det(I − Γϕ1 Γϕ2) where Γϕ1 and Γϕ2 are Hankel operators that are Hilbert–Schmidt. For certain, ψ Barnes’s integral leads to an expansion of this determinant in terms of the generalised hypergeometric 2mF2m-1. These results extend those of Basor and Chen [2], who obtained 4F3 likewise. We include examples where the Wiener–Hopf factors are found explicitly.