Convergence of associated continued fractions revised

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-24

  Ifantis, E K ^a   Panagopoulos, P N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Associated continued fractions; Green function; Moment problem; Orthogonal polynomials; Stieltjes transform; Tridiagonal operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035267044     PISSN: 01678019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010656608079     Document Type: Article

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