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          Volume 8, Issue 1, Article 24 | 
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             Inequalities for the Smallest Zeros of Laguerre Polynomials and their $q$-analogues
 
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          Authors:  | 
          Dharma P. Gupta, Martin E. Muldoon,  | 
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          Keywords: 
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          Laguerre polynomials, Zeros, q-Laguerre polynomials, Inequalities. | 
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          Date Received: 
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          03/08/06 | 
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          Date Accepted: 
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          28/02/07 | 
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             33C45, 33D45. 
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          Editors:  | 
          Doru Stefanescu,   | 
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          Abstract: | 
           
              We present bounds and approximations for the smallest positive zero of the Laguerre polynomial    which are sharp as    . We indicate the applicability of the results to more general functions including the  -Laguerre polynomials. 
             
          
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