Theory of generalized trigonometric functions: From Laguerre to Airy forms

Abstract We develop a new point of view to introduce families of functions, which can be identified as generalization of the ordinary trigonometric or hyperbolic functions. They are defined using a procedure based on umbral methods, inspired by the Bessel Calculus of Bochner, Cholewinsky and Haimo. We propose further extensions of the method and of the relevant concepts as well and obtain new families of integral transforms allowing the framing of the previous concepts within the context of generalized Borel transform.