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We associate to an $N$-sample of a given rotationally invariant probability measure $\mu_0$ with compact support in the complex plane, a polynomial $P_N$ with roots given by the sample. Then, for $t \in (0,1)$, we consider the empirical…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-11 André Galligo , Joseph Najnudel , Truong Vu

We start with a random polynomial $P^{N}(z)$ of degree $N$ with independent coefficients. We then consider a new polynomial $P_{t}^{N}$ obtained by $\lceil Nt\rceil$ applications of a fractional differential operator of the form $z^{a}…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Brian C. Hall , Ching-Wei Ho , Jonas Jalowy , Zakhar Kabluchko

Let $p_n$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ having all its roots on the real line distributed according to a smooth function $u(0,x)$. One could wonder how the distribution of roots behaves under iterated differentation of the function, i.e.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Stefan Steinerberger

Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on $\mathbb C$, and let $P_n$ be the random polynomial whose zeros are sampled independently from $\mu$. We study the asymptotic distribution of zeros of high-order derivatives of $P_n$. We show that, for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Jürgen Angst , Oanh Nguyen , Guillaume Poly

Let $p_n:\mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ be a random complex polynomial whose roots are sampled i.i.d. from a radial distribution $u(r) r dr$ in the complex plane. A natural question is how the distribution of roots evolves under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Sean O'Rourke , Stefan Steinerberger

In this work we study the nonlocal transport equation derived recently by Steinerberger when studying how the distribution of roots of a polynomial behaves under iterated differentation of the function. In particular, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Rafael Granero-Belinchón

The question about the behavior of gaps between zeros of polynomials under differentiation is classical and goes back to Marcel Riesz. In this paper, we analyze a nonlocal nonlinear partial differential equation formally derived by Stefan…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Alexander Kiselev , Changhui Tan

In this paper, we consider nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential equations to model anisotropic dynamics of complex root sets of random polynomials under differentiation. These equations aim to generalise the recent PDE obtained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-19 André Galligo

Let \( \{\varphi_i\}_{i=0}^\infty \) be a sequence of orthonormal polynomials on the unit circle with respect to a probability measure \( \mu \). We study zero distribution of random linear combinations of the form \[…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Maxim L. Yattselev , Aaron Yeager

Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots$ be independent and identically distributed random variables in $\mathbb{C}$ chosen from a probability measure $\mu$ and define the random polynomial $$ P_n(z)=(z-X_1)\ldots(z-X_n)\,. $$ We show that for any sequence $k…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Marcus Michelen , Xuan-Truong Vu

Given a sequence of real rooted polynomials $\{p_n\}_{n\geq 1}$ with a fixed asymptotic root distribution, we study the asymptotic root distribution of the repeated polar derivatives of this sequence. This limiting distribution can be seen…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Daniel Perales , Zhiyuan Yang

We investigate the hydrodynamic behavior of zeroes of trigonometric polynomials under repeated differentiation. We show that if the zeroes of a real-rooted, degree $d$ trigonometric polynomial are distributed according to some probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Zakhar Kabluchko

For a monic polynomial $Q_n$ of degree $n$, let $Q_{n, k}$ be its $k$-th derivative normalized to be monic. Under the only assumption that the sequence $\{Q_n\}$ has a weak* limiting zero distribution (an empirical distribution of zeros)…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein , Evgenii A. Rakhmanov

Let $p_n(x)$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ having $n$ distinct, real roots distributed according to a nice probability distribution $u(0,x)dx$ on $\mathbb{R}$. One natural problem is to understand the density $u(t,x)$ of the roots of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Stefan Steinerberger

The average density of zeros for monic generalized polynomials, $P_n(z)=\phi(z)+\sum_{k=1}^nc_kf_k(z)$, with real holomorphic $\phi ,f_k$ and real Gaussian coefficients is expressed in terms of correlation functions of the values of the…

In the customary random matrix model for transport in quantum dots with $M$ internal degrees of freedom coupled to a chaotic environment via $N\ll M$ channels, the density $\rho$ of transmission eigenvalues is computed from a specific…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-15 László Erdős , Torben Krüger , Yuriy Nemish

This paper is concerned with the distribution in the complex plane of the roots of a polynomial sequence $\{W_n(x)\}_{n\ge0}$ given by a recursion $W_n(x)=aW_{n-1}(x)+(bx+c)W_{n-2}(x)$, with $W_0(x)=1$ and $W_1(x)=t(x-r)$, where $a>0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-27 J. L. Gross , T. Mansour , T. W. Tucker , D. G. L. Wang

In this paper, we study the asymptotic macroscopic behavior of the root sets of iterated, randomized derivatives of polynomials. The randomization depend on a parameter of inverse temperature $\beta \in (0, \infty]$, the case $\beta =…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 André Galligo , Joseph Najnudel

Let $\mu$ be a probability measure in $\mathbb{C}$ with a continuous and compactly supported density function, let $z_1, \dots, z_n$ be independent random variables, $z_i \sim \mu$, and consider the random polynomial $$ p_n(z) =…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Stefan Steinerberger , Hau-tieng Wu

Let $G_n(z)=\xi_0+\xi_1z+...+\xi_n z^n$ be a random polynomial with i.i.d. coefficients (real or complex). We show that the arguments of the roots of $G_n(z)$ are uniformly distributed in $[0,2\pi]$ asymptotically as $n\to\infty$. We also…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-18 Ildar Ibragimov , Dmitry Zaporozhets
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