Direct spreading measures of Laguerre polynomials (Q609200)

The authors study the spreading measures of the Rakhmanov probability density \(\rho _{n, \alpha }(x) = \frac{1}{d^2_n}x^{\alpha }e^{-x}[L^{(\alpha )}_n(x)]^2\) along the positive real line for the Laguerre orthogonal polynomials. In particular, they study the standard deviation, Fisher information, Renyi and Shannon entropies as well as the so-called \(q\)-Renyi and Shannon lengths. They use several methods for their computation and also present some numerical results to illustrate the sharpness of their estimates.