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Orthogonal Polynomials, Recurrences, Jacobi Matrices, and Measures

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This is a compact bare bone survey of some aspects of orthogonal polynomials addressed primarily to nonspecialists. Special attention is paid to characterization theorems and to spectral properties of Jacobi matrices.

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Nevai, P. (1992). Orthogonal Polynomials, Recurrences, Jacobi Matrices, and Measures. In: Gonchar, A.A., Saff, E.B. (eds) Progress in Approximation Theory. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 19. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2966-7_4

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