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Main Author: Baez, John C.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00326
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author Baez, John C.
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contents A "Littlewood polynomial" is a polynomial whose coefficients are all 1 or -1. The set of all complex roots of all Littlewood polynomials exhibits many complicated, beautiful and fascinating patterns. Some fractal regions of this set closely resemble "dragon sets" formed by iterated function systems. A heuristic argument for this is known, but no precise theorem along these lines has been proved. We invite the reader to try.
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spellingShingle The Beauty of Roots
Baez, John C.
History and Overview
Combinatorics
A "Littlewood polynomial" is a polynomial whose coefficients are all 1 or -1. The set of all complex roots of all Littlewood polynomials exhibits many complicated, beautiful and fascinating patterns. Some fractal regions of this set closely resemble "dragon sets" formed by iterated function systems. A heuristic argument for this is known, but no precise theorem along these lines has been proved. We invite the reader to try.
title The Beauty of Roots
topic History and Overview
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00326