New conjectured inequalities for zeros of Jacobi polynomials (Q1014369)

The author discusses the inequality \(\bigl(n+(\alpha+\beta+1)/2\bigr)\theta_{n,r}^{(\alpha,\beta)}> \bigl(n+(\alpha+\beta+3)/2\bigr)\theta_{n+1,r}^{(\alpha,\beta)}\), \(r=1,2,\dots,n\), \(n\geq1\), where \(x_{n,r}^{(\alpha,\beta)}=\cos\theta_{n,r}^{(\alpha,\beta)}\) is the \(r\)-th zero in the descending order of the Jacobi polynomial \(P_n^{(\alpha,\beta)}(x)\). Using known \(n\)-large asymptotics and a numeric test for \(n\leq100\), the author formulates several conjectures on a domain of validity of the above inequality (and of the inequality with the opposite sign) in the \((\alpha,\beta)\) plane for all \(n\geq r\) and some fixed \(r\).