The arc length and topology of a random lemniscate

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12086MaRDI QIDQ4600964zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erik Lundberg, Koushik Ramachandran

Publication date 18 January 2018

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09791

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian coefficientspolynomial lemniscateKac ensemble

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields (60G60) Polynomials and rational functions of one complex variable (30C10) Integral geometry (53C65)

Abstract: A polynomial lemniscate is a curve in the complex plane defined by $zinmathbbC:|p(z)|=t$. Erd"os, Herzog, and Piranian posed the extremal problem of determining the maximum length of a lemniscate $Lambda=zinmathbbC:|p(z)|=1$ when $p$ is a monic polynomial of degree $n$. In this paper, we study the length and topology of a random lemniscate whose defining polynomial has independent Gaussian coefficients. In the special case of the Kac ensemble we show that the length approaches a nonzero constant as $nightarrowinfty$. We also show that the average number of connected components is asymptotically $n$, and we observe a positive probability (independent of $n$) of a giant component occurring.

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