Abstract
We discuss connections between birth and death processes and orthogonal polynomials. We survey certain spectral properties of orthogonal polynomials and spectra of birth and death processes. Birth and death processes with linear birth and death rates are studied in some detail. We also mention some results concerning birth and death processes whose transition rates are rational functions.
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