Interlacing of zeros of linear combinations of classical orthogonal polynomials from different sequences (Q2271391)

Interlacing properties of the zeros of some linear combinations of orthogonal polynomials are studied. The authors consider the following sequences \(R_n=L_n^{\alpha}+b_n L_n^{\alpha +1}\) and \(S_n=L_n^{\alpha}+d_n L_{n-1}^{\alpha +1},\) where \(\{L_n^{\alpha}\}\) is the sequence of Laguerre polynomials, which are orthogonal with respect to the weight function \(e^{-x }x^{\alpha}\), (\(\alpha>-1\)) on the interval \((0,+\infty)\). They obtain conditions on the coefficients \(b_n\) (respectively \(d_n\)) such that \(R_n\) and \(R_{n+1}\) (respectively \(S_n\) and \(S_{n+1}\)) have interlacing zeros. Moreover, a similar result is obtained for Jacobi polynomials.