New inequalities from classical Sturm theorems

DOI10.1016/J.JAT.2004.09.006MaRDI QIDQ707205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alfredo Deaño, Amparo Gil, Javier Segura

Publication date 9 February 2005

Published in Journal of Approximation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6647

zbMATH Keywords

hypergeometric functionsorthogonal polynomialsSturn comparison theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other analytical inequalities (26D20) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10)

Review text

The authors develop a systematic study of transformations of second order hypergeometric differential equations to normal form by means of Liouville transformations. Those transformations are chosen in such a way that the problem of computing the extrema or studying the monotonicity properties of the resulting coefficient reduces to solving a quadratic equation. Then, using Sturm comparison theorems, they obtain inequalities satisfied by the zeros of the solutions of those differential equations. They improve previously known inequalities, extend their range of validity and obtain new inequalities. In particular: (i) they complete Szegö's bounds on the zeros of Jacobi polynomials relaxing the restrictions for the parameter values, (ii) they show that Grosjean's inequality on the zeros of Legendre polynomials is also valid for Jacobi polynomials, (iii) they obtain bounds on ratios of consecutive zeros of Gauss and confluent hypergeometric functions and (iv) derive an inequality involving the geometric mean of zeros of Bessel functions.

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