Relative asymptotics for polynomials orthogonal with respect to a discrete Sobolev inner product

Abstract

We investigate the asymptotic properties of orthogonal polynomials for a class of inner products including the discrete Sobolev inner products $\langle h,g \rangle = \int hg\, dμ+ \sum_{j=1}^m \sum_{i=0}^{N_j} M_{j,i} h^{(i)}(c_j) g^{(i)}(c_j)$, where $μ$ is a certain type of complex measure on the real line, and $c_j$ are complex numbers in the complement of $\supp(μ)$. The Sobolev orthogonal polynomials are compared with the orthogonal polynomials corresponding to the measure $μ$.