I hope it is the first in a series on Orthogonal Polynomials. There is much to learn and much to do.
Here is a link to the preprint on ArXiv.
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Orthogonal polynomials associated with a continued fraction of Hirschhorn
Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mourad E. H. Ismail
Abstract
We study orthogonal polynomials associated with a continued fraction due to Hirschhorn.Hirschhorn's continued fraction contains as special cases the famous Rogers--Ramanujan continued fraction and two of Ramanujan's generalizations. The orthogonality measure of the set of
polynomials obtained has an absolutely continuous component. We find generating functions, asymptotic formulas, orthogonality relations, and the Stieltjes transform of the measure. Using standard generating function techniques, we show how to obtain formulas for the convergents of Ramanujan's continued fractions, including a formula that Ramanujan recorded himself as Entry 16 in Chapter 16 of his second notebook.
The picture below is the conference group photo from Hong Kong (July 2017).
Mourad is seated in the front row second from the left. Many of the leading lights of the OPSF world are in this picture.