Abstract
This half-research, half-expository paper addresses the problem of determining the spectrum and spectral properties of systems of orthogonal polynomials that can be derived from their recurrence relation or, more precisely, from the continued fraction of the polynomials. The content has been the subject of recent research of the authors (and of many others as well), but this time the paper explores widely the foundational basis of the subject.
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