Discriminants and Functions of the Second Kind of Orthogonal Polynomials

Results in Mathematics

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 132-149

  Ismail, Mourad E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

differential equations; Discriminants; finite dimensional Lie algebras; functions of the second kind; numerator polynomials; orthogonal polynomials; raising and lowering operators; recurrence relations; zeros

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001665534     PISSN: 14226383     EISSN: 14209012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03322044     Document Type: Article

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