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Orthogonal Polynomials and Jacobi Operators

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In the preceding chapters we derived basic existence and uniqueness results for moment problems. In this chapter we develop two powerful tools for a “finer” study of one-dimensional moment problems: orthogonal polynomials and Jacobi operators.

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Schmüdgen, K. (2017). Orthogonal Polynomials and Jacobi Operators. In: The Moment Problem. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64546-9_5

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