Joint distribution of conjugate algebraic numbers: a random polynomial approach (Q2007738)

In this paper the authors count algebraic numbers of fixed degree by their weighted norm which generalizes the naive height, the length, the Euclidean and the Bombieri norms. For a polynomial \(q(z)=a_0+a_1z+\dots+a_nz^n\) and a vector of positive weights \(\mathbf{w}=(w_0,w_1,\dots,w_n)\) the authors define the weighted \(l_{p, \mathbf{w}}\)-norm of \(q\) by \(\big(\sum_{i=0}^n |w_ia_i|^p\big)^{1/p}\) if \(p<\infty\) and by \(\max_{0 \leq i \leq n} w_i|a_i|\) if \(p=\infty\). They evaluate the number \(\Phi\) of primitive polynomials \(q\) of degree \(n\) whose \(l_{p, \mathbf{w}}\)-norms are bounded by \(Q\). The limit of the quantity \(\Phi/Q^{n+1}\) as \(Q \to \infty\) is evaluated in terms of the corresponding unit ball, and a certain complicated integral. The main theorem is quite general: it involves a measurable set, where the roots of those \(q\) can belong, etc. The upper bound for the difference between the quantity which is considered and its limit as \(Q \to \infty\) is also evaluated in terms of \(Q\).