Tau-Function Constructions of the Recurrence Coefficients of Orthogonal Polynomials

Advances in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-168

  Chen, Yang ^a   Ismail, Mourad E H ^b   Van Assche, Walter ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Erdos weights; Freud weights; Hankel determinants; Recurrence relations; Recursion coefficients; Weak exponential weights; Zeros

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039243738     PISSN: 01968858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/aama.1997.0574     Document Type: Article

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