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Zeros of repeated derivatives of random polynomials

Probability 2019-08-05 v1

Abstract

It has been shown that zeros of Kac polynomials Kn(z)K_n(z) of degree nn cluster asymptotically near the unit circle as nn\to\infty under some assumptions. This property remains unchanged for the ll-th derivative of the Kac polynomials Kn(l)(z)K^{(l)}_n(z) for any fixed order ll. So it's natural to study the situation when the number of the derivatives we take depends on nn, i.e., l=Nnl=N_n. We will show that the limiting global behavior of zeros of Kn(Nn)(z)K_n^{(N_n)}(z) depends on the limit of the ratio Nn/nN_n/n. In particular, we prove that when the limit of the ratio is strictly positive, the property of the uniform clustering around the unit circle fails; when the ratio is close to 1, the zeros have some rescaling phenomenon. Then we study such problem for random polynomials with more general coefficients. But things, especially the rescaling phenomenon, become very complicated for the general case when Nn/n1N_n/n\to 1, where we compute the case of the random elliptic polynomials to illustrate this.

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@article{arxiv.1908.00730,
  title  = {Zeros of repeated derivatives of random polynomials},
  author = {Renjie Feng and Dong Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00730},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

The paper is considered as part of Dong Yao's Bachelor's thesis