Spectral-measure convergence conjecture for higher Lamé operators

Let d(z)=i=1kQi(z)didzi\mathfrak d(z)=\sum_{i=1}^k Q_i(z)\frac{d^i}{dz^i} be a non-degenerate higher Lamé operator, and let r=maxi=1,,k(degQii)r=\max_{i=1,\ldots,k}(\deg Q_i-i). Let PolrPol_r be the space of monic polynomials of degree rr. For each sufficiently large nn, let σn(d(z))\sigma_n(\mathfrak d(z)) be the finite measure on PolrPol_r assigning equal mass to the normalized Van Vleck polynomials associated with degree-nn Stieltjes polynomials. Spectral-measure convergence conjecture. For any non-degenerate d(z)\mathfrak d(z), the sequence σn(d(z))\sigma_n(\mathfrak d(z)) converges weakly to a compactly supported measure Σ(d(z))\Sigma(\mathfrak d(z)) on PolrPol_r, and Σ(d(z))\Sigma(\mathfrak d(z)) depends only on the leading monomial Qk(z)dkdzkQ_k(z)\frac{d^k}{dz^k}. This conjecture asserts existence and leading-term universality of the limiting Van Vleck measure; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Thomas Holst and Boris Shapiro, “On higher Heine-Stieltjes polynomials”, arXiv:0904.0218 (2009).

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