English

Hilbert transforms and the equidistribution of zeros of polynomials

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2021-08-09 v4 Number Theory

Abstract

We improve the current bounds for an inequality of Erd\H{o}s and Tur\'an from 1950 related to the discrepancy of angular equidistribution of the zeros of a given polynomial. Building upon a recent work of Soundararajan, we establish a novel connection between this inequality and an extremal problem in Fourier analysis involving the maxima of Hilbert transforms, for which we provide a complete solution. Prior to Soundararajan (2019), refinements of the discrepancy inequality of Erd\H{o}s and Tur\'an had been obtained by Ganelius (1954) and Mignotte (1992).

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@article{arxiv.2104.00105,
  title  = {Hilbert transforms and the equidistribution of zeros of polynomials},
  author = {Emanuel Carneiro and Mithun Kumar Das and Alexandra Florea and Angel V. Kumchev and Amita Malik and Micah B. Milinovich and Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh and Jiuya Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00105},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 pages, 3 figures, updated to incorporate referee's suggestions