Classical orthogonal polynomials as moments

Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 520-542

  Ismail, Mourad E H ^a   Stanton, Dennis ^a  

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Author keywords

Al Salam Chihara polynomials; Classical orthogonal polynomials; Continuous q ultraspherical polynomials; Generating functions; Multilinear generating functions; Transformation formulas; Umbral calculus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031519781     PISSN: 0008414X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4153/CJM-1997-024-9     Document Type: Article

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