Asymptotics and bounds for the zeros of Laguerre polynomials: a survey

  • Authors:
  • Luigi Gatteschi

  • Affiliations:
  • Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Via Maria Vittoria 3, I-10123 Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Selected papers of the international symposium on applied mathematics, August 2000, Dalian, China
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Some of the work on the construction of inequalities and asymptotic approximations for the zeros λn,k(α), k = 1,2 .... ,n, of the Laguerre polynomial Lnα(x) as v = 4n + 2α + 2 → ∞, is reviewed and discussed. The cases when one or both parameters n and α unrestrictedly diverge are considered. Two new uniform asymptotic representations are presented: the first involves the positive zeros of the Bessel function Jα(x), and the second is in terms of the zeros of the Airy function Ai(x). They hold for k= 1,2 .... , [qn] and for k = [pn], [pn] + 1 ..... n, respectively, where p and q are fixed numbers in the interval (0, 1 ). Numerical results and comparisons are provided which favorably justify the consideration of the new approximations formulas.