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2012 On the distribution of critical points of a polynomial
Sneha Subramanian
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 17: 1-9 (2012). DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v17-2040

Abstract

This paper proves that if points $Z_1,Z_2,...$ are chosen independently and identically using some measure $\mu$ from the unit circle in the complex plane, with $p_n(z) = (z-Z_1)(z-Z_2)...(z-Z_n)$, then the empirical distribution of the critical points of $p_n$ converges weakly to $\mu$.

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Sneha Subramanian. "On the distribution of critical points of a polynomial." Electron. Commun. Probab. 17 1 - 9, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v17-2040

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Accepted: 26 August 2012; Published: 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 7 June 2016

zbMATH: 1261.60051
MathSciNet: MR2970701
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ECP.v17-2040

Subjects:
Primary: 60G99

Keywords: critical points , Pemantle-Rivin conjecture , random polynomials

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