Plancherel-Rotach asymptotic expansion for some polynomials from indeterminate moment problems (Q485328)

The authors study the Plancherel-Rotach asymptotics of four families of orthogonal polynomials: the Chen-Ismail polynomials, the Berg-Letessier-Valent polynomials and the Conrad-Flajolet polynomials I and II. They explain the convenience, for this study, of the use of the asymptotic technique designed by Z. Wang and R. Wong for difference equations, instead of other habitual techniques as the famous Deift-Zhou steepest descent analysis of Riemann-Hilbert problems. The four families of polynomials satisfy a convenient second order difference equation given in the form of a birth and death process with cubic or quartic rates. For the four families of polynomials, the asymptotic study is divided in three regions: the oscillatory region, the monotonic region and the transition region. Also, in any of these three regions, the authors compute an asymptotic approximation of these polynomials for a large degree after a convenient re-scaling of the variable of the polynomials. As it can be expected, for any of the four families of polynomials, the asymptotic expansion in the oscillatory region is given in terms of trigonometric functions, in the monotonic region in terms of Bessel functions and in the transition region in terms of Airy functions. These four families of polynomials arise in indeterminate moment problems. The asymptotic results derived by the authors let them to establish a conjecture about a more general fact: the behavior, for a large degree, of polynomials orthogonal with respect to solutions of indeterminate moment problems.