V. Spiridonov et A. Zhedanov, DISCRETE-TIME VOLTERRA CHAIN AND CLASSICAL ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS, Journal of physics. A, mathematical and general, 30(24), 1997, pp. 8727-8737
A non-isospectral discrete-time Volterra chain (DTVC) is derived from
a set of spectral transformations for symmetric orthogonal polynomials
(OF). Such DTVC is a natural finite difference analogue of the well k
nown factorization chain for the Schrodinger equation. A class of mero
morphic solutions of DTVC is found from an ansatz of semiseparation of
variables. The latter yields the very general explicitly known system
s of OP-the Askey-Wilson and Askey-Ismail polynomials.