Experiments on the zeros of harmonic polynomials using certified counting

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.966180zbMATH Open1365.30002arXiv1406.5523OpenAlexW2056969837WikidataQ115997087 ScholiaQ115997087MaRDI QIDQ5264646FDOQ5264646

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Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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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)

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• Bertini

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