Monotonicity of zeros of Laguerre-Sobolev-type orthogonal polynomials (Q972463)

The paper concerns the zeros of Laguerre-Sobolev-type orthogonal polynomials \(\{L_{n}^{(\alpha,M,N)}(x)\}_{n=0}^{\infty}\), \(\alpha>-1\), \(M\geq 0, N\geq 0\). The authors prove that the zeros of \(\{ L_{n}^{(\alpha,M,N)}(x)\}_{n=0}^{\infty}\) interlace with the zeros of the classical Laguerre polynomials \(\{L_{n}^{(\alpha (x)}\}_{n=0}^{\infty}\). They establish the monotonicity of the zeros of \(\{L_{n}^{(\alpha,M,0)}(x)\}_{n=0}^{\infty}\) and \(\{ L_{n}^{(\alpha,0,N)(x)}\}_{n=0}^{\infty}\) with respect to the parameters \(M\) and \(N\), respectively, and they also give asymptotic relations of functions involving the zeros of the above polynomials. For special values of the parameters \(M\) and \(N\) the results coincide with the results given by Duenas and Marcellan in recent papers.