Probability Seminar: Polynomials, Zeros, Critical Points and Probability

Probability Seminar: Polynomials, Zeros, Critical Points and Probability

Probability Seminar
Oct 17, 2012, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Sneha Subramanian, U Penn
Robin Pemantle and Igor Rivin conjectured that given any distribution $\mu$ on the complex plane, if we select points $z_1, z_2, ..., z_n$ using $\mu$, then the empirical distribution of the critical points of the polynomial $p_n(z) = (z-z_1)(z-z_2)...(z-z_n)$ converges weakly to $\mu$ as $n$ goes to $\infty$. Pemantle and Rivin, in their paper, proved the conjecture for a special class of...