Contracted asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials with unbounded recurrence coefficients

Series
Analysis Seminar
Time
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Jeff Geronimo – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
Organizer
Jeff Geronimo
The contracted asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials whose recurrence coefficients tend to infinity will be discussed. The connection between the equilibrium measure for potential problems with external fields will be exhibited. Applications will be presented which include the Wilson polynomials.