How constant shifts affect the zeros of certain rational harmonic functions

DOI10.1007/S40315-018-0240-8MaRDI QIDQ1634271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jörg Liesen, Jan Zur

Publication date 18 December 2018

Published in Computational Methods and Function Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07593

zbMATH Keywords

zerosrational harmonic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05)

Abstract: We study the effect of constant shifts on the zeros of rational harmomic functions $f(z)=r(z)-conjz$. In particular, we characterize how shifting through the caustics of $f$ changes the number of zeros and their respective orientations. This also yields insight into the nature of the singular zeros of $f$. Our results have applications in gravitational lensing theory, where certain such functions $f$ represent gravitational point-mass lenses, and a constant shift can be interpreted as the position of the light source of the lens.

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