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We consider random trigonometric polynomials of the form \[ f_n(x,y)=\sum_{1\le k,l \le n} a_{k,l} \cos(kx) \cos(ly), \] where the entries $(a_{k,l})_{k,l\ge 1}$ are i.i.d. random variables that are centered with unit variance. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Jürgen Angst , Guillaume Poly , Hung Pham Viet

Let $X_N$ be a random trigonometric polynomial of degree $N$ with iid coefficients and let $Z_N(I)$ denote the (random) number of its zeros lying in the compact interval $I\subset\mathbb{R}$. Recently, a number of important advances were…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Jean-Marc Azaïs , Federico Dalmao , José León , Ivan Nourdin , Guillaume Poly

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA) asserts that every complex polynomial has as many complex roots, counted with multiplicities, as its degree. A probabilistic analogue of this theorem for real roots of real polynomials, sometimes…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Boris Kazarnovskii

We study concentration inequalities for the number of real roots of the classical Kac polynomials $$f_{n} (x) = \sum_{i=0}^n \xi_i x^i$$ where $\xi_i$ are independent random variables with mean 0, variance 1, and uniformly bounded…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Van Hao Can , Oanh Nguyen

We study global distribution of zeros for a wide range of ensembles of random polynomials. Two main directions are related to almost sure limits of the zero counting measures, and to quantitative results on the expected number of zeros in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Igor E. Pritsker

We introduce a theory of probability in $\lambda$-rings designed to efficiently describe random variables valued in multisets of complex numbers, varieties over a field, or other similar enriched settings. A key role is played by the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Sean Howe

The secant method is a very effective numerical procedure used for solving nonlinear equations of the form $f(x)=0$. In a recent work [A. Sidi, Generalization of the secant method for nonlinear equations. {\em Appl. Math. E-Notes},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Avram Sidi

Let $\xi_0,\xi_1,...$ be independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables such that $\E \log (1+|\xi_0|)<\infty$. We consider random analytic functions of the form $$ G_n(z)=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \xi_k f_{k,n} z^k, $$ where…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Zakhar Kabluchko , Dmitry Zaporozhets

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jimmy He , Huy Tuan Pham , Max Wenqiang Xu

We compute the precise leading asymptotics of the variance of the number of real roots for a large class of random polynomials, where the random coefficients have polynomial growth. Our results apply to many classical ensembles, including…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Yen Q. Do , Nhan D. V. Nguyen

We present new expressions for the $k$-generalized Fibonacci numbers, say $F_k(n)$. They satisfy the recurrence $F_k(n) = F_k(n-1) +\dots+F_k(n-k)$. Explicit expressions for the roots of the auxiliary (or characteristic) polynomial are…

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We study the distribution of families of multiplicative functions among the coprime residue classes to moduli varying uniformly in a wide range, obtaining analogues of the Siegel--Walfisz Theorem for large classes of multiplicative…

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A universality conjecture of Farmer and Rhoades [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 357(9):3789--3811, 2005] and Farmer [Adv. Math., 411:Paper No. 108781, 14, 2022] asserts that, under some natural conditions, the roots of an entire function should…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Andrew Campbell , Sean O'Rourke , David Renfrew

Let $\omega(n)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of a natural number $n$. In 1940, Erd\H{o}s and Kac established that $\omega(n)$ obeys the Gaussian distribution over natural numbers, and in 2004, the third author generalized…

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Consider the Erd\H{o}s-Renyi random graph on n vertices where each edge is present independently with probability c/n, with c>0 fixed. For large n, a typical random graph locally behaves like a Galton-Watson tree with Poisson offspring…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Charles Bordenave , Pietro Caputo

We show that under certain general conditions, short sums of $\ell$-adic trace functions over finite fields follow a normal distribution asymptotically when the origin varies, generalizing results of Erd\H{o}s-Davenport, Mak-Zaharescu and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Corentin Perret-Gentil

Let $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables. In this paper we study the behavior of concentration functions of weighted sums $\sum_{k=1}^{n}X_ka_k $ with respect to the arithmetic structure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Friedrich Götze , Andrei Yu. Zaitsev

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA) asserts that every complex polynomial has as many complex roots, counted with multiplicities, as its degree. A probabilistic analogue of this theorem for real roots of real polynomials, commonly…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Boris Kazarnovskii

In this paper, we study how the roots of the so-called Kac polynomial $W_n(z) = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} \xi_k z^k$ are concentrating to the unit circle when its coefficients of $W_n$ are independent and identically distributed non-degenerate real…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Gerardo Barrera , Paulo Manrique

The number of real roots has been a central subject in the theory of random polynomials and random functions since the fundamental papers of Littlewood-Offord and Kac in the 1940s. The main task here is to determine the limiting…

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