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Publications and source records attributed to Khang Tran.
In his paper of 2000, Kenneth B. Stolarsky made various observations and conjectures about discriminants and generating functions of certain types of Chebyshev-like polynomials. We prove several of these conjectures. One of our proofs involves Wilf-Zeilberger pairs and a contiguous relation for hypergeometric series.
This paper investigates the location of the zeros of a sequence of polynomials generated by a rational function with a binomial-type denominator. We show that every member of a two-parameter family consisting of such generating functions gives rise to a sequence of polynomials $\{P_{m}(z)\}_{m=0}^{\infty}$ that is eventually hyperbolic. Moreover, the real zeros of the polynomials $P_{m}(z)$ form a dense subset of an interval $I\subset\mathbb{R}^{+}$, whose length depends on the particular values of the parameters in the generating function.
In this short note, we give simple proofs of several results and conjectures formulated by Stolarsky and Tran concerning generating functions of some families of Chebyshev-like polynomials.