Abstract
Distributional representations of the moment functionals of the sieved Pollaczek polynomials of the first and second kinds are established. These representations hold for wider ranges of the parameters than those were the representation by positive measures is possible.
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A. CABRERA Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Bogotá, *AND* Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA and UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, SANTAFÉ DE BOGOTÁ.

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