On the relation between Gegenbauer polynomials and the Ferrers function of the first kind

Abstract: Using the direct relation between the Gegenbauer polynomials and the Ferrers function of the first kind, we compute interrelations between certain Jacobi polynomials, Meixner polynomials, and the Ferrers function of the first kind. We then compute Rodrigues-type and orthogonality relations for Ferrers functions of the first and second kinds. In the remainder of the paper using the relation between Gegenbauer polynomials and the Ferrers function of the first kind we derive connection and linearization relations, some definite integral and series expansions, some asymptotic expansions of Mehler-Heine type, Christoffel-Darboux summation formulas, and infinite series closure relations (Dirac delta distribution).