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A combinatorial proof of a positivity result

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Gillis  and
J. Kleeman
J. Gillis
Affiliation:
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
J. Kleeman
Affiliation:
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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We shall be concerned with the Laguerre polynomials, defined bySome time ago Szegö (8) showed thatfor (a, b, c = 0, 1, …). It is easily deduced from this (cf. (5)) thatfor all A λ ≥ 3.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , July 1979 , pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1979

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