A new summation identity for the Srivastava–Singhal polynomials

In his recent investigations involving differential operators for some generalizations of the classical Laguerre polynomials, H. Bavinck [J. Phys. A Math. Gen. 29 (1996) L277–L279] encountered and proved a certain summation identity for the classical Laguerre polynomials. The main object of this sequel to Bavinck’s work is to prove a generalization of this summation identity for the Srivastava–Singhal polynomials. The demonstration, which is presented here in the general case, differs markedly from the earlier proof given for the known special case. It is also indicated how the general summation identity can be applied to derive the corresponding result for one class of the Konhauser biorthogonal polynomials.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.