Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
A suitable function f(x) 0 ≤ x < ∞, can be expanded into a Fourier series of Laguerre polynomials , whose interval of orthogonality is 0 ≤ x < ∞. The usual problems as to convergence and, lacking convergence, summability, and also the asymptotic behaviour of Lebesgue constants, arise for such developments. A summary of work on these convergence and summability problems, together with extensive references to the literature, can be found in the standard treatise by G. Szegö (5, especially Chapter IX) to whom many of these results are due.