It is well known that every Hoelder-continuous function on the unit circle is the sum of two functions such that one of these two functions extends holomorphically into the unit disc and the other extends holomorphically into the complement of the unit disc. In the paper we prove that an analogue of this holds for Hoelder-continuous functions on an annulus A which have zero averages on all circles contained in A which surround the hole.
The location of the zeros of a two-parameter family of complex-valued harmonic quadrinomials depends on the parameters. In this paper, we determine and demonstrate that the image of some critical circle under these two-parameter family of complex-valued harmonic quadrinomial is a hypocycloid. We also determine a zero-free curve for two-parameter family of quadratic qudrinomial.
For random polynomials with i.i.d. (independent and identically distribu-ted) zeros following any common probability distribution $μ$ with support contained in the unit circle, the empirical measures of the zeros of their first and higher order derivatives will be proved to converge weakly to $μ$ a.s. (almost sure(ly)). This, in particular, completes a recent work of Subramanian on the first order derivative case where $μ$ was assumed to be non-uniform. The same a.s. weak convergence will also be shown for polar and Sz.-Nagy's generalized derivatives, on some mild conditions.
We show that a nonvanishing analytic function on a domain in the unit disc can be approximated by (a scalar multiple of) a Blaschke product whose zeros lie on a prescribed circle enclosing the domain. We also give a new proof of the analogous classical result for polynomials. A connection is made to universality results for the Riemann zeta function.
Let $E$ be a continuum in the closed unit disk $|z|\le 1$ of the complex $z$-plane which divides the open disk $|z| < 1$ into $n\ge 2$ pairwise non-intersecting simply connected domains $D_k,$ such that each of the domains $D_k$ contains some point $a_k$ on a prescribed circle $|z| = ρ, 0 <ρ<1, k=1,...,n\,. $ It is shown that for some increasing function $Ψ\,$ independent of $E$ and the choice of the points $a_k,$ the mean value of the harmonic measures $$ Ψ^{-1}\[ \frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{k} Ψ(ω(a_k,E, D_k))] $$ is greater than or equal to the harmonic measure $ω(ρ, E^*, D^*)\,,$ where $E^* = …
In signal processing the Rudin-Shapiro polynomials have good autocorrelation properties and their values on the unit circle are small. Binary sequences with low autocorrelation coefficients are of interest in radar, sonar, and communication systems. In this paper we study the oscillation of the modulus of the Rudin-Shapiro polynomials on the unit circle. We also show that the Rudin-Shapiro polynomials $P_k$ and $Q_k$ of degree $n-1$ with $n := 2^k$ have $o(n)$ zeros on the unit circle. This should be compared with a result of B. Conrey, A. Granville, B. Poonen, and K. Soundararajan stating tha…
In this paper we deduce a universal result about the asymptotic distribution of roots of random polynomials, which can be seen as a complement to an old and famous result of Erdos and Turan. More precisely, given a sequence of random polynomials, we show that, under some very general conditions, the roots tend to cluster near the unit circle, and their angles are uniformly distributed. The method we use is deterministic: in particular, we do not assume independence or equidistribution of the coefficients of the polynomial.
We show that certain sums of products of Hermite-Biehler entire functions have only real zeros, extending results of Cardon. As applications of this theorem we construct sums of exponential functions having only real zeros, we construct polynomials having zeros only on the unit circle, and we obtain the three-term recurrence relation for an arbitrary family of real orthogonal polynomials. We discuss a similarity of this result with the Lee-Yang circle theorem from statistical mechanics. Also, we state several open problems.
Polynomials whose zeros are symmetric either to the real line or to the unit circle are very important in mathematics and physics. We can classify them into three main classes: the self-conjugate polynomials, whose zeros are symmetric to the real line; the self-inversive polynomials, whose zeros are symmetric to the unit circle; and the self-reciprocal polynomials, whose zeros are symmetric by an inversion with respect to the unit circle followed by a reflection in the real line. Real self-reciprocal polynomials are simultaneously self-conjugate and self-inversive so that their zeros are symme…
The classical problem of counting the number of real zeros of a real polynomial was solved a long time ago by Sturm. The analogous problem of counting the number of zeros that a polynomial has on the unit circle is, however, still an open problem. In this paper, we show that the second problem can be reduced to the first one through the use of a suitable pair of Möbius transformations - often called Cayley transformations - that have the property of mapping the unit circle onto the real line and vice versa. Although the method applies to arbitrary complex polynomials, we discuss in detail seve…
In this paper we study polynomials $(P_n)$ which are hermitian orthogonal on two arcs of the unit circle with respect to weight functions which have square root singularities at the end points of the arcs, an arbitrary nonvanishing trigonometric polynomial $\mathcal{A}$ in the denominator and possible point measures at the zeros of $\mathcal{A}$. First we give an explicit representation of the orthogonal polynomials $P_n$ in terms of elliptic functions. With the help of this representation for sufficiently large $n$ the number of zeros of $P_n$ which are in an $ε$-neighbourhood of each of the …
Let p(z) be a complex polynomial of degree n. Let C be a circle containing its n-1 zeros, having its center in the centroid of these zeros. We prove that C must contain at least int((n-1):2) zeros of its derivative.
Let $z_1, \dots, z_m$ be $m$ distinct complex numbers, normalized to $|z_k| = 1$, and consider the polynomial $$ p_{m}(z) = \prod_{k=1}^{m}{(z-z_k)}.$$ We define a sequence of polynomials in a greedy fashion, $$ p_{N+1}(z) = p_{N}(z) \left(z - z^*\right)\qquad \mbox{where}~z^* = \arg\max_{|z|=1} |p_{N}(z)|,$$ and prove that, independently of the initial polynomial $p_m$, the roots of $p_{N}$ equidistribute in angle at rate at most $(\log{N})^2/N$. This even persists when sometimes adding `adversarial' points by hand. We rephrase the main result in terms of a dynamical system involving the inve…
Let $\{f_j\}_{j=0}^n$ be a sequence of orthonormal polynomials where the orthogonality relation is satisfied on either the real line or on the unit circle. We study zero distribution of random linear combinations of the form $$P_n(z)=\sum_{j=0}^nη_jf_j(z),$$ where $η_0,\dots,η_n$ are complex-valued i.i.d.~standard Gaussian random variables. Using the Christoffel-Darboux formula, the density function for the expected number of zeros of $P_n$ in these cases takes a very simple shape. From these expressions, under the mere assumption that the orthogonal polynomials are from the Nevai class, we gi…
We give several descriptions of positive quadrature formulas which are exact for trigonometric -, respectively, Laurent polynomials of degree less or equal $n-1-m$, $0\leq m\leq n-1$. A complete and simple description is obtained with the help of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. In particular it is shown that the nodes polynomial can be generated by a simple recurrence relation. As a byproduct interlacing properties of zeros of para-orthogonal polynomials are obtained. Finally, asymptotics for the quadrature weights are presented.
We show that the orthogonality conjecture for divisorial Zariski decompositions on compact Kahler manifolds holds for pseudoeffective (1,1) classes with volume zero.
We study the root distribution of some univariate polynomials satisfying a recurrence of order two with linear and quadratic polynomial coefficients. We show that the set of non-isolated limits of zeros of the polynomials is the closure of an arc, a circle, an interval or its exterior under the real line, the union of at most two different shapes of the above cases expect the union of an arc and a circle, and some degenerate forms.
We consider matrix functions with certain invariance under inversion in the unit circle. If such a function satisfies a positivity assumption on the unit circle, then only zero partial indices appear in its Riemann-Hilbert (Wiener-Hopf) factorization. It implies the unique solvability of a certain class of Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problems. It includes the ones associated with the inverse scattering transform of the focusing/defocusing integrable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations.