Variations on a theme of Heine and Stieltjes: An electrostatic interpretation of the zeros of certain polynomials

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 189-194

  Grünbaum, F Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Koornwinder polynomials; Logarithmic potential; Orthogonal polynomials

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

INVERSE SQUARE LAW; KOORNWINDER POLYNOMIALS; LOGARITHMIC POTENTIAL; ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 0032207973     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(98)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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