TY - JOUR AU - Costas-Santos, R. S. AU - Marcellán, F. PY - 2010 DA - 2010/07/01 TI - q-Classical Orthogonal Polynomials: A General Difference Calculus Approach JO - Acta Applicandae Mathematicae SP - 107 EP - 128 VL - 111 IS - 1 AB - It is well known that the classical families of orthogonal polynomials are characterized as the polynomial eigenfunctions of a second order homogeneous linear differential/difference hypergeometric operator with polynomial coefficients. SN - 1572-9036 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-009-9536-z DO - 10.1007/s10440-009-9536-z ID - Costas-Santos2010 ER -