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We consider Laguerre polynomials $L_n^{(\alpha_n)}(nz)$ with varying negative parameters $\alpha_n$, such that the limit $A = -\lim_n \alpha_n/n$ exists and belongs to $(0,1)$. For $A > 1$, it is known that the zeros accumulate along an…

Suppose that f is a boolean function from F_2^n to {0,1} with spectral norm (that is the sum of the absolute values of its Fourier coefficients) at most M. We show that f may be expressed as +/- 1 combination of at most 2^(2^(O(M^4)))…

We study the problem of minimizing the supremum norm, on a segment of the real line or on a compact set in the plane, by polynomials with integer coefficients. The extremal polynomials are naturally called integer Chebyshev polynomials.…

We show that the distribution of the values of Fekete polynomials $F_p$ on the unit circle is governed, as $p\to\infty$, by an explicit limiting (non-Gaussian) random point process.This allows us to prove that the Mahler measure of $F_p$…

For the generalized Jacobi, Laguerre and Hermite polynomials $P_n^{(\alpha_n, \beta_n)} (x), L_n^{(\alpha_n)} (x),$\break $H_n^{(\gamma_n)} (x)$ the limit distributions of the zeros are found, when the sequences $\alpha_n$ or $\beta_n$ tend…

We consider a hierarchy of upper approximations for the minimization of a polynomial $f$ over a compact set $K \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ proposed recently by Lasserre (arXiv:1907.097784, 2019). This hierarchy relies on using the push-forward…

Suppose that the moduli of the coefficients of a power series are 1/n!, while the arguments are arbitrary. If an entire function f represented by such power series decreases exponentially on some ray, then it has to be an exponential. If…

For an odd prime $p$, we say a polynomial $f\in \mathbb F_p[X]$ computes square roots if $f(a)^2=a$ for all nonzero, perfect squares $a\in \mathbb F_p$. When $p\equiv 3 \mod 4$, it is easy to see that $f(X)=X^{\frac{p+1}{4}}$ is the…

Given a subset $\mathcal{S}\subseteq \mathbb{F}_q[x]$ and fixed integers $n,m\in \mathbb{N}$, we study the distribution of the smallest denominator $Q\in \mathcal{S}$ for which there exists $\mathbf{P}\in \mathbb{F}_q[x]^m$ such that…

For an irrational real $\alpha$ and $\gamma\not \in \mathbb Z + \mathbb Z\alpha$ it is well known that $$ \liminf_{|n|\rightarrow \infty} |n| ||n\alpha -\gamma || \leq \frac{1}{4}. $$ If the partial quotients, $a_i,$ in the negative…

The famous Koebe $\frac14$ theorem deals with univalent (i.e., injective) analytic functions $f$ on the unit disk $\mathbb D$. It states that if $f$ is normalized so that $f(0)=0$ and $f'(0)=1$, then the image $f(\mathbb D)$ contains the…

Let $\mu$ be a non-trivial probability measure on the unit circle $\partial\bbD$, $w$ the density of its absolutely continuous part, $\alpha_n$ its Verblunsky coefficients, and $\Phi_n$ its monic orthogonal polynomials. In this paper we…

Let $S$ be a compact infinite set in the complex plane with $0\notin{S}$, and let $R_n$ be the minimal residual polynomial on $S$, i.e., the minimal polynomial of degree at most $n$ on $S$ with respect to the supremum norm provided that…

Let $\alpha_1,\alpha_2$ be non-zero algebraic numbers such that $\frac{\log \alpha_2}{\log\alpha_1}\notin\mathbb{Q}$ and let $\beta$ be a quadratic irrational number. In this article, we prove that the values of two relatively prime…

We propose a simple uniform lower bound on the spacings between the successive zeros of the Laguerre polynomials $L_n^{(\alpha)}$ for all $\alpha>-1$. Our bound is sharp regarding the order of dependency on $n$ and $\alpha$ in various…

Let $D$ be a finite-dimensional division algebra over its center and $R=D[t;\sigma,\delta]$ a skew polynomial ring. Under certain assumptions on $\delta$ and $\sigma$, the ring of central quotients $D(t;\sigma,\delta) = \{f/g \,|\, f \in…

We show that the counts of low degree irreducible factors of a random polynomial $f$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ with independent but non-uniform coefficients behave like that of a uniform random polynomial, exhibiting a form of universality for…

Let $\mathscr{F}_{n,d}$ be the class of all functions $f:\{-1,1\}^n\to[-1,1]$ on the $n$-dimensional discrete hypercube of degree at most $d$. In the first part of this paper, we prove that any (deterministic or randomized) algorithm which…

Motivated by recent work on optimal approximation by polynomials in the unit disk, we consider the following noncommutative approximation problem: for a polynomial $f$ in $d$ freely noncommuting arguments, find a free polynomial $p_n$, of…

We consider the distance to the nearest integer of f(p), where f is a quadratic polynomial with irrational leading coefficient. This distance is very small as a function of p, for infinitely many primes p. We give a 14% improvement in the…