An electrostatics model for zeros of general orthogonal polynomials

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 355-369

  Ismail, Mourad E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0001293017     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2000.193.355     Document Type: Article

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