Positivity and uniqueness conjecture for the recurrence coefficients

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Let (an,bn)(a_n,b_n) satisfy the recurrence relations referred to as --, with a0=0a_0=0 and n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}. A solution is called positive when an+1>0a_{n+1}>0 and bn>0b_n>0 for every n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}.

Positivity and uniqueness conjecture. There is a unique positive solution, and it corresponds to the initial condition

b0=Γ(2/3)Γ(1/3).b_0=\frac{\Gamma(2/3)}{\Gamma(1/3)}.

This conjecture concerns the large-nn behavior of recurrence coefficients associated with multiple orthogonal polynomials for an exponential cubic weight. The supplied text gives numerical evidence for positivity but provides no resolution of the uniqueness claim.

References

Primary source

Walter Van Assche, Galina Filipuk and Lun Zhang, “Multiple orthogonal polynomials associated with an exponential cubic weight”, arXiv:1306.3835 (2014).

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