Global-phase portrait and large-degree asymptotics for the Kissing polynomials Articles uri icon

publication date

  • August 2021

start page

  • 448

end page

  • 526

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 147

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-2526

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1467-9590

abstract

  • We study a family of monic orthogonal polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to the varying, complex-valued weight function, exp(nsz), over the interval [-1, 1], where s є C is arbitrary. This family of polynomials originally appeared in the literature when the parameter was purely imaginary, that is, s є iR , due to its connection with complex Gaussian quadrature rules for highly oscillatory integrals. The asymptotics for these polynomials as n-->∞ have recently been studied for s є iR, and our main goal is to extend these results to all s in the complex plane. We first use the technique of continuation in parameter space, developed in the context of the theory of integrable systems, to extend previous results on the so-called modified external field from the imaginary axis to the complex plane minus a set of critical curves, called breaking curves. We then apply the powerful method of nonlinear steepest descent for oscillatory Riemann–Hilbert problems developed by Deift and Zhou in the 1990s to obtain asymptotics of the recurrence coefficients of these polynomials when the parameter s is away from the breaking curves. We then provide the analysis of the recurrence coefficients when the parameter s approaches a breaking curve, by considering double scaling limits as s approaches these points. We see a qualitative difference in the behavior of the recurrence coefficients, depending on whether or not we are approaching the points s = ±2 or some other points on the breaking curve.

subjects

  • Mathematics

keywords

  • asymptotic analysis; continuation in parameter space; orthogonal polynomials in the complex plane; riemann-hilbert problem