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Some Continued Fractions of Ramanujan and Meixner-Pollaczek Polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David R. Masson*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, M5S 1A1
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Abstract

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We examine the convergence and analytic properties of a continued fraction of Ramanujan and its connection to the orthogonal polynomials of Meixner-Pollaczek.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1989

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