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Main Authors: Henriksen, Christian, Petersen, Carsten Lunde, Uhre, Eva
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05203
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author Henriksen, Christian
Petersen, Carsten Lunde
Uhre, Eva
author_facet Henriksen, Christian
Petersen, Carsten Lunde
Uhre, Eva
contents Given a family $(q_k)_k$ of polynomials, we call an open set $U$ root-sparse if the number of zeros of $q_k$ is locally uniformly bounded on $U$. We study the interplay between the individual zeros of the polynomials $q_k$ and those of the $m$th derivatives $q_k^{(m)}$, in a root-sparse open set $U$, as $k\to\infty$. More precisely, if the root distributions $μ_k$ of $q_k$ converge weak* to some compactly supported measure $μ$, whose potential is nowhere locally constant on a root-sparse open set $U$, then we link the roots of the $m$th derivative $q_k^{m}$, for an arbitrary $m>0$, to the roots of $q_k$ and the critical points of the potential $p_μ$ on compact subsets of $U$. We apply this result in a polynomial dynamics setting to obtain convergence results for the roots of the $m$th derivative of iterates of a polynomial outside the filled-in Julia set. We also apply our result in the setting of extremal polynomials.
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spellingShingle Roots of polynomial sequences in root-sparse regions
Henriksen, Christian
Petersen, Carsten Lunde
Uhre, Eva
Complex Variables
42C05, 37F10, 31A15
Given a family $(q_k)_k$ of polynomials, we call an open set $U$ root-sparse if the number of zeros of $q_k$ is locally uniformly bounded on $U$. We study the interplay between the individual zeros of the polynomials $q_k$ and those of the $m$th derivatives $q_k^{(m)}$, in a root-sparse open set $U$, as $k\to\infty$. More precisely, if the root distributions $μ_k$ of $q_k$ converge weak* to some compactly supported measure $μ$, whose potential is nowhere locally constant on a root-sparse open set $U$, then we link the roots of the $m$th derivative $q_k^{m}$, for an arbitrary $m>0$, to the roots of $q_k$ and the critical points of the potential $p_μ$ on compact subsets of $U$. We apply this result in a polynomial dynamics setting to obtain convergence results for the roots of the $m$th derivative of iterates of a polynomial outside the filled-in Julia set. We also apply our result in the setting of extremal polynomials.
title Roots of polynomial sequences in root-sparse regions
topic Complex Variables
42C05, 37F10, 31A15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05203