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Zeros of Orthogonal and Biorthogonal Polynomials: Some Old, Some New

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We briefly review some old and new results on zeros of orthogonal polynomials for weights on (-∞, ∞). In addition, we discuss the zeros of some special biorthogonal polynomials.

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Lubinsky, D.S. (1994). Zeros of Orthogonal and Biorthogonal Polynomials: Some Old, Some New. In: Cuyt, A. (eds) Nonlinear Numerical Methods and Rational Approximation II. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 296. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0970-3_1

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