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WKB and Turning Point Theory for Second Order Difference Equations: External Fields and Strong Asymptotics for Orthogonal Polynomials

Mathematical Physics 2009-09-18 v2 math.MP

Abstract

A LG-WKB and Turning point theory is developed for three term recurrence formulas associated with monotonic recurrence coefficients. This is used to find strong asymptotics for certain classical orthogonal polynomials including Wilson polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1684,
  title  = {WKB and Turning Point Theory for Second Order Difference Equations: External Fields and Strong Asymptotics for Orthogonal Polynomials},
  author = {Jeffrey S. Geronimo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1684},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

A minor change was made in the Introduction. Plain tex, 86 pages, 3 figures

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