On the product of the extreme zeros of Laguerre polynomials

Abstract

The purpose of this note is twofold: firstly, it intends to bring to light an apparently unknown property of the product of the extreme zeros of Laguerre polynomials, which in a very particular case leads to a twenty-year-old conjecture for Hermite polynomials posed by Gazeau, Josse-Michaux, and Moncea while developing numerical methods in quantum mechanics; and secondly to progress towards the solution of this problem as an application of a parametric eigenvalue problem.