{ "id": "1207.3446", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-07-14T18:26:41.000Z", "updated": "2013-02-08T05:32:16.000Z", "title": "Moments of Askey-Wilson polynomials", "authors": [ "Jang Soo Kim", "Dennis Stanton" ], "comment": "23 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.CA" ], "abstract": "New formulas for the nth moment of the Askey-Wilson polynomials are given. These are derived using analytic techniques, and by considering three combinatorial models for the moments: Motzkin paths, matchings, and staircase tableaux. A related positivity theorem is given and another one is conjectured.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-02-08T05:32:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "askey-wilson polynomials", "analytic techniques", "nth moment", "motzkin paths", "staircase tableaux" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 23, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1207.3446K" } } }