On the number of zeros of certain rational harmonic functions

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08058-5zbMATH Open1090.30008arXivmath/0401188MaRDI QIDQ3372083FDOQ3372083

Dmitry Khavinson, Genevra Neumann

Publication date: 17 February 2006

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Extending a result from the paper of D. Khavinson and G. Swiatek, we show that the rational harmonic function $$, where r(z) is a rational function of degree n > 1, has no more than 5n - 5 complex zeros. Applications to gravitational lensing are discussed. In particular, this result settles a conjecture of S. H. Rhie concerning the maximum number of lensed images due to an n-point gravitational lens.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0401188

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingharmonic functionrational functionS. H. Rhie conjectureWilmshurst conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10) General relativity (83C99)

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