Christoffel transform and multiple orthogonal polynomials

We investigate multiple orthogonal polynomials associated with the system of measures obtained by applying a Christoffel transform to each of the orthogonality measures. We present an algorithm for computing the transformed recurrence coefficients and determinantal formulas for the transformed multiple orthogonal polynomials of type I and type II.

We apply these results to show that zeros of multiple orthogonal polynomials of an Angelesco or an AT system interlace with the zeros of the polynomials corresponding to its one-step Christoffel transform. This allows us to prove a number of interlacing properties satisfied by the multiple orthogonality analogues of classical orthogonal polynomials. For the discrete polynomials, this also produces an estimate on the smallest distance between consecutive zeros.

We also identify a connection between the Christoffel transform of orthogonal polynomials and multiple orthogonality systems containing a finitely supported measure. In consequence, the compatibility relations for the nearest neighbour recurrence coefficients provide a new algorithm for the computation of the Jacobi coefficients of the one-step or multi-step Christoffel transforms.