Zeros of sections of power series: deterministic and random

DOI10.1007/S40315-017-0200-8MaRDI QIDQ1687103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 22 December 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02843

equidistribution gauge and index of power series Jentzsch-Szegő theorem power series random power series sections of power series Szegő class zeros of sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Power series (including lacunary series) in one complex variable (30B10) Random power series in one complex variable (30B20) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15)

Abstract: We present a streamlined proof (and some refinements) of a characterization (due to F. Carlson and G. Bourion, and also to P. Erd"os and H. Fried) of the so called Szeg"o's power series. This characterization is then applied to readily obtain some (more) recent known results and some new results on the asymptotic distribution of zeros of sections of random power series, extricating quite naturally the deterministic ingredients. Finally, we study the possible limits of the zero counting probabilities of a power series.

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The paper deals with a class of power series whose radius of convergence is \(1\). To each of its non-constant sections \(s_n=s_n(z)=\sum_{k=0}^{n} a_k z^k, \;n=0, 1,2,\ldots\), two measures are associated: the zero counting measure \(\mu_n(f)\) and its circular projection \(\rho_n(f)\), i.e. \[ \mu_n=\frac{1}{n} \sum_{\omega:\;s_n(\omega)=0} \delta_{\omega} \quad \text{and} \quad \rho_n=\rho_n(f)=\frac{1}{n} \sum_{\omega:\;s_n(\omega)=0} \delta_{|\omega|}. \] The author presents a streamlined proof and some refinements of classical results on asymptotics of zero-counting measures, from the seminal work of R. Jentzsch and G. Szegő up to the characterization (due to F. Carlson and G. Bourion, and also P. Erdős and H. Fried) of the Szegő class \(\mathcal{S}\) of those holomorphic functions \(f\) whose zero counting measures weakly converge to the uniform probability \(\Lambda\). Then this characterization is applied to obtain some results (both known and new) on the asymptotic distribution of zeros of sections of random power series. The author analyzes the probability that a random power series is a Szegő power series. He also describes all the possible weak limit points of the probabilities \(\rho_n\) associated to a power series \(f\), all whose coefficients are either \(0\) or \(1\). In the last section of the paper the author exhibits an example of a universal power series \(f\) such that every probability measure in \([1,\;+\infty)\) is a limit of a subsequence of the probability measures \((\rho_n(f))_{n\geq 0}\).

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