A Uniform Asymptotic Expansion of the Jacobi Polynomials with Error Bounds

Abstract

In a recent investigation of the asymptotic behavior of the Lebesgue constants for Jacobi polynomials, we encountered the problem of obtaining an asymptotic expansion for the Jacobi polynomials , as n → ∞, which is uniformly valid for θ in . The leading term of such an expansion is provided by the following well-known formula of “Hilb's type” [13, p. 197]:(1.1)where α > – 1, β real and ; c and are fixed positive numbers. Note that the remainder in (1.1) is always θ1/2O(n–3/2).