Complex zeros of an elliptic integral (Q5899967)

Elliptic integrals \(I_{\omega}=\oint \omega\) of a real polynomial form \(\omega\) of degree at most n along contours \(y^ 2+x^ 4-x^ 2=t\) in the plane are considered. The number of zeros of such an elliptic integral as a function of t (and depending on the degree of the corresponding form \(\omega\)) may be of interest, when the elliptic integral \(\oint \omega\) is analytically continued from (-(1/4),0) to all the complex plane without nonnegative reals. It is proved that the space of such elliptic integrals along contours vanishing in \(t=-(1/4)\) is Chebyshev in the complex plane without nonnegative reals \(\{\) \(t\geq 0\}\)- it means that the number of zeros of non-zero functions of that space is smaller than its dimension which equals to \(n+[(n-1)/2]\).