Experiments on the zeros of harmonic polynomials using certified counting

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.966180MaRDI QIDQ5264646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5523

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic polynomialsWilmshurst's conjecturehomotopy continuationroot-findingalpha-certification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials and rational functions of one complex variable (30C10) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05) Numerical computation of roots of polynomial equations (65H04) Algorithms with automatic result verification (65G20)

Abstract: Motivated by Wilmshurst's conjecture, we investigate the zeros of harmonic polynomials. We utilize a certified counting approach which is a combination of two methods from numerical algebraic geometry: numerical polynomial homotopy continuation to compute a numerical approximation of each zero and Smale's alpha-theory to certify the results. Using this approach, we provide new examples of harmonic polynomials having the most extreme number of zeros known so far; we also study the mean and variance of the number of zeros of random harmonic polynomials.

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