Takemura's conjecture on the support of the Heun root-counting measure

Let Q(z)Q(z) have roots a1,a2,a3a_1,a_2,a_3, and let μ\mu be the limiting root-counting measure from the Shapiro–Tater conjecture. For i{1,2,3}i\in\{1,2,3\}, let γi\gamma_i be the curve consisting of all points bb satisfying

ajakbt(ta1)(ta2)(ta3)dtR,\int_{a_j}^{a_k}\sqrt{\frac{b-t}{(t-a_1)(t-a_2)(t-a_3)}}\,dt\in\mathbb R,

where jj and kk are the remaining two indices and the integration follows the straight interval from aja_j to aka_k. Let ΓQ\Gamma_Q be the union of the three segments of these curves joining each aia_i to their common intersection point inside ConvQConv_Q. Takemura's conjecture. The support of the limiting root-counting measure μ\mu coincides with ΓQ\Gamma_Q. This gives an explicit geometric description of the support whose existence and general three-segment shape are asserted in the Shapiro–Tater conjecture; its resolution is not supplied in the source.

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B. Shapiro and M. Tater, “On spectral polynomials of the Heun equation”, arXiv:0812.2321 (2008).

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