Asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials with regularly varying recurrence coefficients (Q909176)

In this well written, important and interesting paper, the authors prove Szegö type asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials associated with weights on infinite intervals. Their underlying assumptions are on the recurrence coefficients rather than the weight. Following is a special case of their results: Let \(\{p_ n(x)\}_ 0^{\infty}\) be a sequence of orthonormal polynomials with recurrence relation \[ xp_ n(x)=a_{n+1}p_{n+1}(x)+b_ np_ n(x)+a_ np_{n-1}(x),\quad n\geq 1, \] where for some \(a>0\) and \(b\in {\mathbb{R}}\), \(a_ n=an^{\alpha}\); \(b_ n=bn^{\alpha}\), \(n\geq 1\). Let [A,B] be the smallest interval containing \([b-2a,b+2a]\), let \[ z:=\frac{x-b}{2a}+\{(\frac{x-b}{2a})^ 2-1\}^{1/2}, \] and \[ H:=\exp (\alpha x\int^{1}_{0}\{(x- bt^{\alpha})^ 2-4a^ 2t^{2\alpha}\}^{-1/2}dt). \] Then uniformly in compact subsets of \({\mathbb{C}}\setminus [A,B],\) \(\lim_{n\to \infty}\frac{(2\pi n)^{\alpha /2}p_ n(n^{\alpha}x)}{z^ nH^ n}=(az)^{1/2}((x-b)^ 2-4a^ 2)^{-1/4}\times \exp (\frac{b}{2}\int^{1}_{0}\{(x-bs)^ 2\) \[ -4a^ 2s^ 2\}^{- 1/2}ds). \]