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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 3:00pm

Duncan Dauvergne

Toronto

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

It is well known that the roots of a random polynomial with i.i.d. coefficients tend to concentrate near the unit circle. In particular, the zero measures of such random polynomials converge almost surely to normalized Lebesgue measure on the unit circle if and only if the underlying coefficient distribution satisfies a particular moment condition. In this talk, I will discuss how to generalize this result to random sums of orthogonal (or asymptotically minimal) polynomials.