Jost functions and Jost solutions for Jacobi matrices. I: A necessary and sufficient condition for Szegő asymptotics (Q2502040)

Let \(J=J(\{a_n\},\{b_n\})\) be a Jacobi matrix with \(a_n\to 1\), \(b_n\to 0\). The main result of the present paper concerns the Szegő asymptotics for orthonormal polynomials \(p_n\), associated with \(J\). Let \(Q\) be an at most countable set of points \(z\) in the unit disk \(\mathbb{D}\) such that \(z+z^{-1}\) is an eigenvalue of \(J\). Then \(z^n p_n(z+z^{-1})\) converges to a nonzero limit as \(n\to\infty\) uniformly on compact subsets of \(\mathbb{D}\backslash Q\) if and only if the \(a\)'s and \(b\)'s obey the following conditions \[ \sum_{n=1}^\infty | a_n-1| ^2+| b_n| ^2<\infty, \] and both limits \[ \lim_{n\to\infty} \prod_{j=1}^n a_j, \qquad \lim_{n\to\infty} \sum_{j=1}^n b_j \] exist, and the first one is a positive number. The equivalent conditions are given in terms of the spectral data of \(J\). The authors show that the Szegő asymptotics holds at \(z_0\in\mathbb{D}\backslash Q\) if and only if the Jost asymptotics does at the same point. [Part II has appeared in Int.\ Math.\ Res.\ Not.\ 2006, No.\,5, Art.\ ID 19396 (2006; Zbl 1122.47030), see the following review.]