Title
Experiments on the Zeros of Harmonic Polynomials Using Certified Counting.
Abstract
Motivated by Wilmshurst's conjecture, we investigate the zeros of harmonic polynomials. We utilize a certified counting approach, which is a combination of two methods from numerical algebraic geometry: numerical polynomial homotopy continuation to compute a numerical approximation of each zero and Smale's alpha theory to certify the results. We provide new examples of harmonic polynomials having the most extreme number of zeros known so far; we also study the mean and variance of the number of zeros of random harmonic polynomials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1080/10586458.2014.966180
EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
harmonic polynomials,Wilmshurst's conjecture,homotopy continuation,alpha-certification,root-finding
Wilson polynomials,Topology,Classical orthogonal polynomials,Orthogonal polynomials,Mathematical analysis,Macdonald polynomials,Discrete orthogonal polynomials,Gegenbauer polynomials,Hahn polynomials,Mathematics,Difference polynomials
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24.0
2.0
1058-6458
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan D. Hauenstein126937.65
antonio lerario211.64
Erik Lundberg311.98
Dhagash Mehta4158.26