Bounded roots conjecture for eigenpolynomials of exactly solvable operators

Consider a fixed order-kk linear ordinary differential operator family with monic polynomial leading coefficient Qk(z)Q_k(z) of degree kk. An operator is exactly solvable if its coefficient polynomials satisfy degQjj\deg Q_j\leq j for j=1,,kj=1,\dots,k, with equality for at least one jj, and a sequence of such operators has moderate growth if, for each j=1,,k1j=1,\dots,k-1, the coefficients of Qj,n(z)/nkjQ_{j,n}(z)/n^{k-j} remain bounded. Bounded roots conjecture. For any sequence {dn(z)}\{\mathfrak d_n(z)\} of exactly solvable operators of moderate growth, the union of all roots of all their eigenpolynomials is bounded in C\mathbb C. This conjecture asserts global root boundedness for eigenpolynomials arising from moderately growing exactly solvable operators; the paper presents it as a general conjecture supported by evidence, with no resolution stated in the source.

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Boris Shapiro and Alexander Solynin, “Root-counting measures of Jacobi polynomials and topological types and critical geodesics of related quadratic differentials”, arXiv:1510.06003 (2015).

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