On the Distribution of Complex Roots of Random Polynomials with Heavy-tailed Coefficients

Abstract: Consider a random polynomial

G_{n} (z) = x i_{n} z^{n} + ... + x i_{1} z + x i_{0}

with i.i.d. complex-valued coefficients. Suppose that the distribution of

l o g (1 + l o g (1 + | x i_{0} |))

has a slowly varying tail. Then the distribution of the complex roots of

G_{n}

concentrates in probability, as

n o i n f t y

, to two centered circles and is uniform in the argument as

n o i n f t y

. The radii of the circles are

| x i_{0} / x i_{a} u |^{1 / a u}

and

| x i_{a} u / x i_{n} |^{1 / (n - a u)}

, where

x i_{a} u

denotes the coefficient with the maximum modulus.

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