o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - November 9, 1995 - - O P - S F N E T Volume 2, Number 6 - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Tom H. Koornwinder, Editor thk@fwi.uva.nl - - - - - - The Electronic News Net of the SIAM Activity Group - - on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions - - - - Please send contributions to: poly@siam.org - - & address changes to: poly-request@siam.org - - - o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o Today's Topics: 1. Introducing this issue and announcing our home page 2. Report on SIAM meeting, Charlotte 3. Al-Salam's ftp site transferred to Vienna 4. Procedure for new subscribers to OP-SF Net 5. Minisemester on Quantum groups and quantum spaces 6. 1-day conference Louvain-la-Neuve in honour of Professor Jean Meinguet 7. Session on Computational Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory 8. Joint summer reasearch conference on Random matrices etc. 9. XXI. International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics 10. Workshop Transform Methods & Special Functions, II (1996) 11. Death of Joe L. Ullman 12. Software Testing Service for Special Functions 13. Math Constants Web Resource 14. Gatteschi Festschrift 15. Special issue of Computers and Math. on Concrete Analysis 16. Impression from the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden 17. New errata for the book Basic hypergeometric series 18. ftp and WWW addresses 19. Changes of address 20. New additions to Haubold's preprint archive 21. Obtaining back issues of OP-SF Net and submitting contributions to OP-SF Net and Newsletter Calendar of events: see issue/topic: 1995 November 27- December 1: main topic q-special functions in fourth week of Warsaw Minisemester on Quantum groups and quantum spaces 2.6 #5 December 1: 1-day conference Louvain-la-Neuve in honour of Professor Jean Meinguet 2.6 #6 December 18-22: International Conference on Harmonic Analysis, Delhi 2.5 #5 1996 January 10-11: Session on Computational Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory, Orlando, Florida 2.6 #7 April 22-23: Umbral Calculus Special Session at MIT 2.4 #5 May 6-26: CRM Workshop on the Theory of Special Functions 2.1 #5 June 23-27: Joint summer reasearch conference on Random matrices, statistical mechanics, and Painleve transcendents 2.6 #8 July 1-5: Meeting in Canterbury on Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations 2.4 #6 July 15-20: International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Goslar, Germany 2.6 #9 August 23-30: Workshop Transform Methods & Special Functions 2.6 #10 Topic #1 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: Introducing this issue and announcing our home page There were quite a lot of new developments in the organisation of our affairs during recent months. Waleed Al-Salam, who started the electronic preprint archive on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions in Alberta and managed this archive for a couple of years, had to retire for reasons of health. I want, on behalf of all of us, to express great thanks for the service he has paid to our community in this way. I am also very happy that Hans Haubold working at the United Nations in Vienna was willing to continue this archive. Please find further information about Haubold's archive in Topic #3. Last month the publication of the Newsletter returned to a regular schedule after a disruption caused by the resigantion of the previous editor. As mentioned before, Wolfram Koepf from Berlin was willing to take over as an editor. The first issue which appeared under his editorship is really very worthwhile reading. If you want to give a free copy of the next issue to a friend or want to put it in the common room of your department, please contact Wolfram Koepf . Needless to say, your contributions to OP-SF Net and/or Newsletter are always welcome. Please note that submissions to the Newsletter (if not containing mathematics symbols or pictures) are automatically considered for publication in OP-SF Net, and vice versa, unless the writer requests otherwise. Our Activity Group has started its own home page at the World Wide Web. The WWW address is: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Muldoon/siamopsf/ At the moment Martin Muldoon is in charge of it. If you may have already your own home page, you might consider to link it to ours. Then all members of the Activity Group will have received ballot forms which they hopefully already returned. Whoever will have been chosen by you, I am sure that the new group of officers will form an active team which will serve your professional interests as much as possible. In the next topic Charles Dunkl reports on the recent SIAM annual meeting in Charlotte: the minisymposium sponsored by us and the business meeting of chairs of activity groups with the board of SIAM. Your input is welcome on two matters mentioned there: suggestions for contributions by our activity group at the Kansas City SIAM annual meeting in July 1996, and feedback to Dan Lozier concerning his proposal for a project to provide accuracy checks for special functions algorithms on the Internet (see Topic #12). Tom Koornwinder Topic #2 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Charles Dunkl Subject: Report on SIAM meeting, Charlotte Report on Annual SIAM meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 23-26 Items pertinent to the activity group OP/SF at the business meeting of chairs of Activity Groups with the board of SIAM: - WWW page: SIAM is setting up links to home pages created by the activity groups. Our group intends to start working on a home page very soon (see Topic #1). - 1996 annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, July - the theme has been announced - it is "New Tools for Applied Mathematics". This might be a good fit with the topic of the "Handbook" project (see OP-SF Net 2.4, Topic #10) if one considers it as a method of using modern media, such as CD-ROM, to disseminate information about special functions. Furthermore, our group is encouraged to submit suggestions for plenary speakers (45-minute lecture) for the meeting. Such suggestions should be developed by December 15 (and can be sent to Martin Muldoon ). Observations at the minisymposium "Computational Aspects of Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials" (see OP-SF Net 2.5, Topic #4 for the program): -John Boyd (University of Michigan) talked about Hermite expansions, the anharmonic oscillator, and perturbation theory. - Walter Gautschi (Purdue U.) discussed an algorithm for generating polynomials orthogonal with respect to a Sobolev norm. This theory has significant differences from the ordinary one, for example, there is no three-term recurrence. - Dan Lozier (Nat'l Inst. of Standards and Technology) gave a survey on software for special functions. He is working on a project to provide accuracy checks for algorithms. The idea would be for researchers to send in a list of pairs (x, f(x)) where f is a special function, and then the NIST computers check these values independently and generate an error report for the researcher. Dan has set up a Web site and asks that the special function community read over his suggestions and send feedback. See Topic #12. - Nico Temme (CWI, Amsterdam) talked about the problems of accurate computations of probability distribution functions in regions of rapid increase, for example, incomplete beta integrals with very large parameters. Often such computations require much more work than routine problems. - The writer of this note presented joint work with Don Ramirez on computation of surface measures of ellipsoids in N-space via Lauricella F_D functions and an application to optimal designs in statistics. Charles Dunkl Topic #3 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Hans Haubold Subject: Al-Salam's ftp site transferred to Vienna Dear Colleague, The anonymous ftp site at euler.math.ualberta.ca has been transferred to the new anonymous ftp site at unvie6.un.or.at, directory siam starting on 19 September 1995. The new ftp site can also be accessed by using a World Wide Web browser ( Mosaic, Netscape, or their X Window implementations) at the address ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam . Manuscripts can be obtained from directory "siam/opfs" and subdirectories. In particular, examine the file 00contents.ftpsite in the "siam/submissions" directory. You are invited to submit one or more of your not-yet-in-print manuscripts which you wish to make available to the OPSF community. They should be in TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX, or AMSLaTeX format. These manuscripts can be submitted by one of the following methods: a) anonymous ftp to unvie6.un.or.at then "cd siam/submissions" then "put file" where "file" is the name of the file you wish to deposit b) E-mail to haubold@ekpvs2.dnet.tuwien.ac.at See Topic #20 for new additions to the archive. Topic #4 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Jim Goldman Subject: Procedure for new subscribers to OP-SF Net Beginning in October, SIAM will acknowledge via e-mail all new subscriptions to activity group electronic newsletters. Previously, we did not send such an acknowledgement, and the first response most people received would have been the next issue of the electronic newsletter to which they had subscribed. Depending on the publishing frequency of the newsletter, a long wait between request and acknowledgement sometimes resulted. Topic #5 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Stanislaw Zakrzewski Subject: Minisemester on Quantum groups and quantum spaces It was already announced in OP-SF Net 2.4, Topic #4 that the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center in Warsaw, Poland will host a Minisemester on "Quantum Groups and Quantum Spaces" during November 6 - December 1, 1995 and that the last week (November 27 - December 1) will have the themes "Special Functions" and "Noncommutative Geometry and Physics". A preliminary list of speakers for this week is now available: J.L. Azcarraga, B.L. Cerchiai, A. Connes, O.F. Dayi, M. Dijkhuizen, L. Faddeev, G. Fiore, A.M. Gavrilik, K. Gawedzki, A. Kempf, M. Klimek, A. Klimyk, E. Koelink, T. Koornwinder, A. Marlow, A. Odzijewicz, J. Seifert, J. Stokman, K. Ueno, L. Vinet J. Wess Further information: WWW: http://info.fuw.edu.pl/~bqg95 or ftp: ftp.fuw.edu.pl, directory pub/bqg95 or email to the scientific secretary S. Zakrzewski Topic #6 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Walter Van Assche Subject: 1-day conference Louvain-la-Neuve in honour of Professor Jean Meinguet Special Topics in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics A 1-day conference in honour of Professor Jean Meinguet December 1, 1995 Universite Catholique de Louvain, room de La Vallee Poussin, Batiment de Hemptinne Chemin du Cyclotron 2, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve The theme of the conference is the broad area of numerical analysis and applied mathematics, but special emphasis will be put on the following topics: approximation theory, matrix theory and scientific computing. This one day conference is organized in honour of Prof. Jean Meinguet of the Universite Catholique de Louvain, as an acknowledgment of his leading role in these areas and in celebration of his 65-th birthday. Speakers: Prof. Gene Golub, Stanford University, Matrices, moments and quadrature Prof. Herbert Stahl, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, Convergence domains for diagonal Pade approximants Prof. Claude Brezinski, Univ. Sc. & Techn. Lille I, Variations on Richardson's method and acceleration Prof. Annie Cuyt, Universitaire Instellingen Antwerpen, Convergence results for multivariate Pade approximants Prof. Walter Gander, Eidg. Technische Hochschule Zurich, Least squares problems in coordinate metrology Prof. Walter Van Assche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Asymptotics for Freud polynomials and the information entropies of the harmonic oscillator There is no registration fee for the conference and the reception is graciously offered by the Departement d'Ingenierie Mathematique (INMA). For the banquet we request a booking before November 10. The banquet fee is 950Bfr for a 3 course meal, wine included. You can transfer this amount to the account mentioned on the registration form. After November 10 the fee is raised to 1050Bfr. Late bookings are also subject to approval by the restaurant and might be refused if too numerous. The conference will be held in room ``de La Vallee Poussin'', Cycl 01, Batiment de Hemptinne, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2. Parking is available in front of the building. For those coming from outside LLN we included a map and travel directions. The reception will be held in the same building. The conference is organized by the Institut de Mathematique Pure et Appliquee (MAPA), the Departement d'Ingenierie Mathematique (INMA), and the Departement de Mathematique (MATH). Organizing committee: Y. Felix (UCL-Math), P. Toint (FUNDP-Math), M. Willem (UCL-MAPA), P. Habets, A. Magnus and P. Van Dooren (UCL-INMA). For further information, please contact A. Magnus, (magnus@anma.ucl.ac.be, tel: +32-10-47.31.57) or P. Van Dooren (vdooren@anma.ucl.ac.be, tel: +32-10-47.80.40) The conference is sponsored by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Ministere de l'Education, de la Recherche et de la Formation. Topic #7 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Richard A. Zalik Subject: Session on Computational Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory Special Session on Computational Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory to be held during the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Orlando, Florida, January 10 - 13, 1996. Organizers: R. A. Zalik and N. K. Govil, Auburn University. List of participants A. Aldroubi (National Institutes of Health) G. Anastassiou (Memphis) L. Auslander (CUNY) J. J. Benedetto (Maryland) P. Borwein (Simon Fraser) C. Cabrelli and U. Molter (Buenos Aires) I. Daubechies (Princeton) G. Davis (Dartmouth) N. K. Govil and R. A. Zalik (Auburn) K. Grochenig (Connecticut) D. Healy (Dartmouth) M. Ismail (USF) M. A. Kon (Boston) and L. Raphael (Howard) D. Lubinsky (Witwatersrand) D. Maslen (Utrecht) M. Z. Nashed (Delaware) R. Mohapatra (Orlando) T. E. Olson (Dartmouth) D. Rockmore (Dartmouth) G. Strang (MIT) V. Strela (MIT) R. Tolimieri (CUNY) M. Taylor (National Center for Atmospheric Research) D. Walnut (George Mason) The talks will be given on Wednesday January 10 (morning and afternoon), and on Thursday morning. Further information: WWW: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/1908_special.html (to be reached via the AMS home page at http://e-math.ams.org) Topic #8 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Richard Askey Subject: Joint summer reasearch conference on Random matrices etc. The following joint summer research conference will be quite relevant for the audience of OP-SF Net: Subject: Random Matrices, statistical mechanics, and Painleve transcendents Dates: June 23 to June 27, 1996 Location: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA Cochairs: Pavel Bleher and Alexander Its, both of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis The analysis of correlation functions for exactly solvable quantum models and of the partition functions in the theory of random matrices has gradually become an exciting new branch of mathematical physics which has deep connections with both the classical theory of special functions and orthogonal polynomials and the modern theory of quantum groups and topological quantum field theory. Further details: Notices AMS, November 1995, pp. 1454-1457 or WWW: http://www.ams.org/committee/meetings/src.html (to be reached via the AMS home page at http://e-math.ams.org) People interested in attending should send the following information to the Summer Research Conference Coordinator, Conferences Department, American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6887, Providence, RI 02940, USA; fax: +1-401-445 4140; e-mail wsd@ams.edu : 1. Title and dates of conference desired 2. Full name 3. Mailing address 4. Area code and phone number for office, home, and FAX 5. E-mail address 6. Scientific background relevant to the topic of the conference 7. Financial assistance requested (or indicate if support is not required) Deadline for receipt of requests for information is March 1, 1996. Topic #9 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: conference organizers Subject: XXI. International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics XXI. International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics 15-20 July 1996, Goslar, Germany Within this Colloquium there will be a.o. a symposium on Quantum Groups covering the following topics: quantum groups and their representations, quantum spaces and quantum symmetries, differential calculus on quantum spaces and quantum groups, non-standard deformations, Yangians, braided Hopf algebras, relations to noncommutative Geometry, q-analogues of special functions and partial differential equations. The Local Organizing Committee consists of H-D. Doebner, W. Scherer and P. Kramer. For the quantum groups symposium V.K. Dobrev is a co-organizer. You can receive the first announcement of this Colloquium on request by sending email to group21@pt.tu-clausthal.de . Topic #10 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Virginia Kiryakova Subject: Workshop Transform Methods & Special Functions, II (1996) The Second International Workshop "Transform Methods & Special Functions", August 1996, Bulgaria was preliminarily announced in OP-SF Net 2.4, Topic #7. The first announcement has appeared now. It is available on request by sending email to Virginia Kiryakova . From this we quote the following information: Dates: August 23 - 30, 1996 Location: Black Sea resort "Golden Sands" near Varna, Bulgaria The Workshop will be devoted to the 100th Anniversary of the Bulgarian mathematician Academician Nikola Obrechkoff (1986 - 1963). He has left an enormous and valuable heritage of more than 250 papers and several monographs and manuals in various topics: Analysis, Algebra, Number Theory, Numerical Analysis, Summation of Divergent Series, Probabilities & Statistics etc. New edition and translation of Obrechkoff's selected papers are also planned. Topics of the Workshop: Integral Transforms, Special Functions, Series Expansions, Fractional Calculus, Algebraical Analysis, Generalized Functions, Operational Calculus, Univalent Functions; Applications of these topics to Complex Analysis, Differential and Integral Equations. Scientific programme: includes invited lectures and short presentations. Proceedings of the Workshop will be published. The requirements and the deadlines for the abstracts and papers will be specified in the Second Announcement. Registration Fees: USD 150 (or USD 130, if sent in advance, by January 15, 1996), for accompanying persons: USD 60. These fees are to cover the necessary organization and administrative expenses of the Workshop, the Abstracts and Proceedings "TM&SF'96", the social programme (coffee breaks, excursion, welcome party) as well as the local transport from / to Varna Airport (about 27 km). The deadline for registration is 15 January 1996. Topic #11 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Walter Van Assche Subject: Death of Joe L. Ullman (This topic was borrowed from the OP-SF Newsletter, October 1995. Look there for some more mathematical details and for references.) Joe L. Ullman, Professor Emeritus of the University of Michigan, died on Monday, September 11, 1995 at the age of 72. Ullman is known for his work in logarithmic potential theory and orthogonal polynomials, and he has made important contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials on the infinite interval and Chebyshev quadrature (with equal weights at every node). Joe was a student of Gabor Szego under whose supervision he prepared his Ph.D. thesis on "Studies of Faber polynomials" at Stanford University in 1949. Ullman was born January 30, 1923 in Buffalo, New York. He received his B.A. from the University of Buffalo in 1942. He fought in World War II, receiving a purple heart, and later served as an instructor of mathematics at army schools in Czechoslovakia and France. After his Ph.D. he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he taught and did his research for 44 years. Ullman's name will forever be connected with Ullman's criterion for regular asymptotic behaviour of orthogonal polynomials and regular zero behaviour. Ullman's criterion for orthogonal polynomials with respect to a positive measure on [-1,1] is that the the minimal carrier capacity of the measure is equal to the capacity of its support, which is 1/2 if the support is [-1,1$. The asymptotic distribution of the contracted zeros of Freud-type orthogonal polynomials is given by a measure with explicit density which is known as the Ullman measure in view of certain results of Ullman. He also showed that equal weight quadrature (Chebyshev quadrature) is possible on an infinite interval, which is a rather surprising result. At home he was always ready to help his wife Barbara at their little farm (with a dozen sheep and some goats), but most of us will remember him for his love of classical analysis and his interesting research, as can be judged from the following quote from the book by Stahl and Totik: "It was especially J. Ullman who systematically studied different bounds and asymptotics on orthogonal polynomials with respect to arbitrary measures on [-1,1], and we owe a lot to his research and personally to him for initiating and keeping alive the subject". Topic #12 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Daniel W. Lozier Subject: Software Testing Service for Special Functions This is a project of Daniel W. Lozier. Its purpose is to begin to develop software at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for use in testing the accuracy, or numerical precision, of mathematical software for special functions. The service would use the World Wide Web to receive test requests and return test results. The tests would be run on a network of workstations at the Institute. It is hoped that the service will be of practical utility to anyone who uses special functions in physics or other applications, and that it will stimulate the interest of applied mathematicians who are interested in computation of special functions as well as computer scientists who are interested in innovative uses of the Internet. References (Chronological Order) [1] Numerical Evaluation of Special Functions, by D.W. Lozier and F.W.J. Olver, gives a simple classification of special functions and a cross-index to published algorithms and software for their numerical evaluation. The original reference is W. Gautschi, Mathematics of Computation 1943-1993: A Half-Century of Computational Mathematics, American Mathematical Society Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics 48 (1994), 79-125. It is presented in hypertext on WWW to assist in locating information about specific special functions. See: http://math.nist.gov/nesf/ [2] Software Needs in Special Functions, by D. W. Lozier, will appear in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics in 1996. A preprint, NISTIR 5490, National Institute of Standards and Technology, August 1994, is available from the author. [3] Software Testing Service for Special Functions: A Proposal and Request for Comments, by D.W. Lozier, provides details of the proposed testing service and asks for comments on its feasibility and utility. This document is an informal working paper that is not intended for ordinary publication. Date: October 1995. See WWW: http://math.nist.gov/stssf The views of all interested individuals about this proposal are sought. Comments on the feasibility, utility, or any other aspect of the proposal can be sent to the author . Topic #13 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Steven Finch Subject: Math Constants Web Resource The Favorite Mathematical Constants web page http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/constant.html is an evolving collection of essays about constants, other than pi and e, which appear throughout mathematics. Well-known examples are due to Euler, Catalan, Khintchine and Feigenbaum, but there are many others too. The essays are accessible to advanced undergraduates and intended to be starting points for continuing research (so bibliographies are as complete as possible). Please drop by and, of course, leave comments or suggestions on how to improve these pages. I strongly recommend using Netscape 1.1 or higher. As a teaser, I offer the following: Can the infinite product (1^(1/1))*(3^(1/9))*(5^(1/25))*(7^(1/49))*(9^(1/81))* ... be expressed in terms of known constants? Steven Finch sfinch@mathsoft.com Topic #14 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca Subject: Gatteschi Festschrift The following books have appeared: G. Allasia, ed., Special Functions, Annals of Numerical Mathematics (ISSN 1021-2655; Claude Brezinski, Editor-in-Chief), vol. 2, Nos. 1-4, Baltzer Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995. G. Allasia, ed., Special Functions, Numerical Algorithms, vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, Baltzer Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995. These books contain the proceedings of an International Symposium on Special Functions, held at the University of Torino in October 1993 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Luigi Gatteschi. The two volumes include 11 invited lectures and 31 contributed papers by 66 authors from many countries, for a grand total of over 700 pages. The first volume opens with a brief Preface including an extract from a letter by Richard Askey describing the connection between Torino and Special Functions going back to the work of Lagrange continued in the 20th century by Tricomi and more recently by Gatteschi. This is followed by a photograph of Gatteschi and a list of his publications. Walter Gautschi's opening article "Luigi Gatteschi's work on special functions and numerical analysis" goes beyond its title to include some remarks of a biographical nature. Gatteschi's substantial contribution to the subject of error terms in asymptotic approximations of special functions is partially reviewed in Roderick Wong's paper "Error bounds for asymptotic approximations of special functions". Among the other more substantial invited papers are one on the weights of positive quadrature formulas for ultraspherical weight functions by K.-J. Forster and one on orthogonal polynomials on weighted Sobolev spaces by F. Marcellan, T.E. Perez and M.A. Pinar. Among the contributed papers in the first volume, those which caught the eye of this reader were "Maximum principles and inequalities for special functions" by D. Kershaw, "A monotonicity property of ultraspherical Christoffel numbers" by J. Korevaar and "The Bieberbach conjecture", a mainly expository paper with a conjecture on bi-univalent functions, by H.V. Smith. These volumes form a fitting tribute to Luigi Gatteschi; we are indebted to Giampietro Allasia for making their publication possible. The tables of contents of these volumes may be found on the World Wide Web: http://www.NL.net/~baltzer/anuma.2.html http://www.NL.net/~baltzer/numa.html See also the home page of Baltzer Science Publishers: http://www.NL.net/~baltzer/ or send email to publish@baltzer.nl Topic #15 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: George Anastasiou Subject: Special issue of Computers and Math. on Concrete Analysis (shortened by OP-SF Net editor) The journal "Computers and Mathematics witt Applications" (editor in chief Ervin Y. Rodin) had a special issue on "Concrete Analysis" (guest editor George A. Anastassiou): Volume 30, Number 3-6, Sept. 1995. While it is mainly dealing with approximation theory, it also contains a few papers on orthogonal polynomials. Topic #16 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom H. Koornwinder Subject: Impression from the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden During almost two months I am staying here at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Djursholm, Sweden. Djursholm is a suburb north of Stockholm, with luxurious villas on big lots, and beautifully located at the Stockholm archipelago. The institute is housed in the villa which was built in 1890 for the Swedish mathematician G\"osta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) and which was drastically reconstructed and extended several times during the next fifteen years. Mittag-Leffler and his Finnish wife Signe, nee Lindfors, lived here for the rest of their life. The villa is towering on a hill and makes the impression of a small castle. From the beginning the library took a central place in the villa, and the whole architecture is a function of the necessity to house a library which was the largest private mathematics library in the world. Mittag-Leffler is well-known by his work in function theory, but his greatest merit for mathematics is probably in his extensive international contacts with the top mathematicians of that time and in his founding (in 1882) and editing of the journal Acta Mathematica. From the beginning, first-rate contributions from leading mathematicians in France, Germany and other countries were obtained, and the journal is still considered as one of the highest ranking mathematics journals in the world. In 1916 Mittag-Leffler and his wife set up a foundation to promote research in pure mathematics in the Scandinavian countries (see G. & S. Mittag-Leffler, Testament 16/3 1916, Acta Math. 40 (1916), III-X. The foundation was to maintain the large library in the villa and to support a research institute there with several professors, and with fellowships for younger mathematicians. In 1916 the plans for the Institute were realistic at least in that Mittag-Leffler's financial resources were adequate for the task. However, in 1922 there was a large financial crash related to the economic crisis in Europe at the time. The crash brought Mittag-Leffler near to bankruptcy and at his death in 1927 the resources did not allow the realisation of his original intentions. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which had incorporated the Institute in 1919, appointed Torsten Carleman as Director of the Institute. Until 1969, the activities of the Institute were mainly restricted to maintaining the library and editing Acta Mathematica. From 1969 on outward funding was obtained by which the new director Lennart Carleson could finally realise Mittag-Leffler's intentions. From then on, a topic is chosen for every year. Within this field experts are invited to work at the Institute for periods of one or more months, and fellowships are made available for post-docs and graduate students. When one looks at the list of programs of the past twenty-five years, one sees topics from analysis dominating, while algebraic geometry has also been repeatedly a topic of concentration. The program for the present academic year is Analysis on Lie Groups. The library is really marvellous, both as a piece of architecture and because of its wealth of older books and journals. It also tries to keep up with the present-day flood of books and journals, but it succeeds of course only partially. Applied mathematics is not represented very strongly. The library does not subscribe to any of the SIAM journals, not even to the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. As for Acta Mathematica, it is very interesting to look at the "Table generale des tomes 1-35" which was published in 1913. For this task the young Marcel Riesz, coming from Hungary, was hired by Mittag-Leffler. For all authors in alphabetical order one finds there a vitae and a list of publications which appeared in Acta. There is a picture gallery of the authors as well. Various well-known authors in orthogonal polynomials and special functions can be found there, for instance Thomas Stieltjes. In Volume 2 (1883) one already finds a paper by E. Goursat "Sur une classe de fonctions representees par des integrales definies", and in Volume 3 (1883) a short note by H. Mellin "Eine Verallgemeinerung der Gleichung $ \Gamma(1+x) \Gamma(1-x) = \pi x / \sin(\pi x) $". Also in the recently published issue of Acta Mathematica special functions do occur in E. Opdam's paper "Harmonic analysis for certain representations of graded Hecke algebra", Acta Math. 175 (1995), 75-121. Although the outsider would not guess this from the title, what really happens here is generalizing the Plancherel formula and the Paley-Wiener theorem for the Mehler-Fock transform to an integral kernel involving Jacobi functions associated with an arbitrary root system (the so-called Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric functions). More information about the Mittag-Leffler Institute can be found on WWW: http://www.ml.kva.se/ . In particular, see under General Information a short account of the history of the Institute, from which I borrowed for this article. On the occasion of the centennial of Acta Mathematica two articles appeared in Acta Math. 148 (1982): by Y. Domar, "On the foundation of Acta Mathematica" and by A. Weil, "Mittag-Leffler as I remember him". Recently a book appeared on the history of Swedish mathematics (in Swedish): Lars Garding, "Matematik och Matematiker. Matematik i Sverige f\"ore 1950", Lund University Press, 1994. It contains a chapter on Mittag-Leffler. Tom Koornwinder Topic #17 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: George Gasper Subject: New errata for the book Basic hypergeometric series Errata, updates of the References, etc., (as of October 17, 1995) for the book Basic Hypergeometric Series, by George Gasper and Mizan Rahman, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 35, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York, 1990 are now available on file from WWW: http://www.math.nwu.edu/preprints/gasper/bhserrata/index.html Below are the errata added to the list since March 30, 1995: p. 78, eq. (3.8.1): Replace the factor `` $p^k$ '' on the right side of the summand by `` $p^{2 k}$ '' . p. 88, eq. (3.10.5): Replace the `` $q^{n+1}$ '' in the argument of the series by `` $q^{n-1}$ '' . The right side of the equation may be simplified to `` $(-aq, aq^2/w, w/aq; \, q)_n / (-q, aq/w, w; \, q)_n$ '' . p. 88, eq. (3.10.7): Replace `` $(-a q^2,$ '' on the right side of the equation by `` $(-a q,$ '' . p. 88, eq. (3.10.9): The right side of the equation may be simplified to `` $(w/aq, -a^{1/2}, aq^2/w; \, q)_n \over (w, -a^{-1/2},aq/w; \, q)_n$ '' . p. 89, eq. (3.10.14): The fraction on the right side of the equation may be simplified to `` $(-aq, aq^2/w, w/aq; \, q)_n \over (-q, aq/w, w;\, q)_n$''. p. 137, Ex. 5.18 (iii): Add `` when $bcde = q^{n+1},$ '' . p. 137, Ex. 5.18 (iv): Add `` when $bcde = q^{n+3},$ '' . p. 240, eq. (II.37): Replace the first factor `` $(p; p)_n$ '' in the denominator by `` $(p; p)_k$ '' . p. 89: In the numerator of the display at the bottom of the page, replace ``$ -\lambda q^{n+1}$ '' by `` $-\lambda q^{n+1}/a$ '' . p. 27, Ex. 1.32: Place a period at the end of the first sentence. p. 73, eq. (3.6.19): Replace `` $q)_{n-1}$ '' by `` $p)_{n-1}$ '' . p. 5, third paragraph: Replace each `` $b_s|$ '' by `` $b_s q|$ '' . p. 88, eq. (3.10.8): Replace `` $, a/q^2;$ '' on the right side of the equation by `` $, a/q b^2;$ '' . Topic #18 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: ftp and WWW addresses A more comprehensive list of ftp and WWW addresses relevant for our field is available at ftp: ftp.fwi.uva.nl directory: pub/mathematics/reports/Analysis/koornwinder/opsfnet.dir file: WWWaddresses or at the home page of the Activity Group WWW: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Muldoon/siamopsf/ under "List of WWW pages of interest to members" This file will be regularly updated, and the changes will be mentioned in OP-SF Net. Please mail corrections and additions for this list to me . Between September 7 and November 8, 1995 the following addresses in the file WWWaddresses were changed or added: Journals: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis: WWW: http://www.siam.org/journals/sima/sima.html Preprint archives: hep-th (theoretical high energy physics): email: hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov or hep-th@babbage.sissa.it WWW: http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/hep-th q-alg (quantum algebra including knot theory): email: q-alg@eprints.math.duke.edu WWW: http://www.msri.org:80/preprints/q-alg.html Organisations: SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions: WWW: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Muldoon/siamopsf/ Other information: Math Constants Web Resource WWW: http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/constant.html Software Testing Service for Special Functions (D.W. Lozier) WWW: http://math.nist.gov/stssf Individuals: Christian Krattenthaler: WWW: http://radon.mat.univie.ac.at/People/kratt Daniel W. Lozier WWW: http://math.nist.gov/acmd/Staff/DLozier/ Topic #19 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: Changes of address The phone numbers of SIAM have changed: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3600 University City Science Center Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688, USA tel.: +1-215-382-9800, fax: +1-215-386-7999 Jan Felipe van Diejen mentioned that his department has moved to a new building. His new address is: Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Tokyo Komaba 3-8-1, Meguro-ku Tokyo 153 Japan Fax : +81-3-5465 7012 E-mail : diejen@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp Vadim Kuznetsov will stay in Montreal during the next few months: Centre de recherches mathematiques, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7 Canada Fax : +1-514-343 2254 E-mail : kuznetso@crm.umontreal.ca Topic #20 --------------- OP-SF NET ---------------- November 9, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Hans Haubold Subject: New additions to Haubold's preprint archive See Topic #3 for the announcement of Hans Haubold's preprint archive. One can approach the archive by anonymous ftp to unvie6.un.or.at, directory siam, or at the WWW address ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam . Between 1 August and 1 October, 1995, the following additions were installed in the "siam/opsf" directory: J.F. van Diejen, Self-dual Koornwinder-Mcdonald polynomials. (see siam/opsf/diejen1.tex). L. Lapointe and L. Vinet, Exact operator solution of the Calogero-Sutherland model. (see siam/opsf/vinet2272.tex). P.G.A. Floris and H.T. Koelink, A commuting q-analogue of the addition formula for disk polynomials. (see siam/opsf/floris- koelink.tex). G. Gasper, Lecture notes for an introductory minicourse on q- series. (see siam/opsf/gasper/gasper-qseries.tex). Between 2 October and 6 November, 1995, the following additions were deposited in the "siam/submissions" directory: W. Van Assche, Compact Jacobi matrices: From Stieltjes to Krein and M(a,b). (see siam/submissions/compact-jacobi.tex). A.I. Aptekarev, V. Kaliaguine, and W. Van Assche, Criterion for the resolvent set of nonsymmetric tridiagonal operators. (see siam/submissions/resolvent.tex). A. Ronveaux and W. Van Assche, Upward extension of the Jacobi matrix for orthogonal polynomials. (see siam/submissions/ronveaux-vanassche.tex). F. Pinter and P. Nevai, Schur functions and orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. (see siam/submissions/schur.dvi and siam/submissions/schur.ps). L. Golinskii, P. Nevai, and W. Van Assche, Perturbation of orthogonal polynomials on an arc of the unit circle. (see siam/submissions/arc.dvi and siam/submissions/arc.ps). G. Gasper, Errata, updates of the References, etc., (as of October 17, 1995) for the book: Basic Hypergeometric Series, by George Gasper and Mizan Rahman, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 35, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge - New York, 1990, xx+287 pp., ISBN 0-521-35049-2. (see siam/submissions/bhserrata_revised.tex). D.P. Gupta and D.R. Masson, Contiguous relations, continued fractions and orthogonality (see siam/submissions/Phi2.tex). T.H. Koornwinder and A.L. Schwartz, Product formulas and associated hypergroups for orthogonal polynomials on the simplex and on a parabolic biangle (see abstract in siam/submissions/biangle.abstract). J.V. Stokman and T.H. Koornwinder, Limit transitions for BC type multivariable orthogonal polynomials (see abstract in siam/submissions/BLpollimit.abstract). 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