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A note on the Erd\"os minimal area problem

Complex Variables 2026-05-28 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

We answer a question of Erd\"os, Herzog, and Piranian on the minimal area of polynomial lemniscates when all the zeros of the polynomial are constrained to lie on a compact set K whose logarithmic capacity is strictly larger than 1.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.03036,
  title  = {A note on the Erd\"os minimal area problem},
  author = {Subhajit Ghosh and Koushik Ramachandran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.03036},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

7 pages, corrected some typos and added Section 4

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