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Root Dynamics of Differentiated Polynomials with Rotationally Invariant Structure

Probability 2026-07-06 v1 Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The dynamics of polynomial roots under repeated differentiation has recently been conjectured to converge to a limiting measure governed by specific nonlinear PDEs, the conjectures being shown in some particular settings. For rotationally invariant initial distributions, a deterministic structured sampling model placing roots on concentric circles was recently introduced by Galligo, Najnudel, and Vu. In this paper, the authors proved convergence under the technical growth condition mn/(nlogn)m_n / (n \log n) \to \infty, where nn is the number of circles and mnm_n is the number of points per circle. In this paper, we significantly improve this result by relaxing the growth condition to mn/lognm_n / \log n \to \infty, thus allowing for regimes where the number of points per circle grows proportionally to the number of circles. The key innovation is a refined upper bound on the root magnitudes after differentiation. This sharper estimate prevents the rapid accumulation of errors over multiple differentiations, fully validating a recent conjecture regarding the robustness of the sampling scheme.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.05054,
  title  = {Root Dynamics of Differentiated Polynomials with Rotationally Invariant Structure},
  author = {Joseph Najnudel and Truong Vu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.05054},
  year   = {2026}
}