Generalized Segal–Bargmann transforms and generalized Weyl algebras associated with the Meixner class of orthogonal polynomials

Meixner [J. London Math. Soc. s1-9(1), 6–13 (1934)] proved that there exist exactly five classes of orthogonal Sheffer sequences: Hermite polynomials which are orthogonal with respect to Gaussian distribution, Charlier polynomials orthogonal with respect to Poisson distribution, Laguerre polynomials orthogonal with respect to gamma distribution, Meixner polynomials of the first kind, orthogonal with respect to negative binomial distribution, and Meixner polynomials of the second kind, orthogonal with respect to Meixner distribution. The Segal–Bargmann transform provides a unitary isomorphism between the L2-space of the Gaussian distribution and the Fock or Segal–Bargmann space of entire functions. This construction was also extended to the case of the Poisson distribution. The present paper deals with the latter three classes of orthogonal Sheffer sequences. By using a set of nonlinear coherent states, we construct and study a generalized Segal–Bargmann transform which is a unitary isomorphism between the L2-space of the orthogonality measure and a certain Fock space of entire functions. To derive our results, we use normal ordering in generalized Weyl algebras that are naturally associated with the orthogonal Sheffer sequences.