Contracted zero distributions of extremal polynomials associated with slowly decaying weights

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This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behaviour of the zeros of polynomials that are extremal with respect to slowly decaying weights on \([0,\infty)\). A specific examples will indicate the nature of the work. Consider the log-normal weight function given by \(w^2(x)= \exp(-\gamma^2(\log x)^2)\), where \(\gamma> 0\). The corresponding extremal monic polynomial \(S_n(x, \gamma)\) of degree \(n\) satisfies the orthogonality condition \(\int^\infty_0 x^kS_n(x, \gamma) w^2(x) dx= 0\) for \(k= 0,\dots, n-1\), and its zeros \(x_{1,n},\dots, x_{n,n}\) are real and simple. Let \(\delta(x)\) denote the Dirac measure at \(x\). Then \(n^{-1} \sum^n_{j=1} \delta(x^{1/n}_{j,n})\) is shown to tend to a weak\(^*\) limit \(\rho\) as \(n\to\infty\). Further, the measure \(\rho\) is supported by the interval \([1,\exp(\gamma^{- 2})]\) and has density there given by \(d\rho/dx= \gamma^2 x^{-1}\). The arguments involve logarithmic potential theory.











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