Strong and ratio asymptotics for Laguerre polynomials revisited Articles uri icon

publication date

  • July 2013

start page

  • 477

end page

  • 486

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 403

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-247X

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1096-0813

abstract

  • In this paper we consider the strong asymptotic behavior of Laguerre polynomials in the complex plane. The leading behavior is well known from Perron and Mehler-Heine formulas, but higher order coefficients, which are important in the context of Krall-Laguerre or Laguerre-Sobolev-type orthogonal polynomials, are notoriously difficult to compute. In this paper, we propose the use of an alternative expansion, due to Buchholz, in terms of Bessel functions of the first kind. The coefficients in this expansion can be obtained in a straightforward way using symbolic computation. As an application, we derive extra terms in the asymptotic expansion of ratios of Laguerre polynomials in C \ [0, infinity).

subjects

  • Mathematics

keywords

  • laguerre orthogonal polynomials; asymptotic expansions