Central limit conjecture for zeros of random Newman and Littlewood polynomials

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Let Nn\mathcal N_n and Ln\mathcal L_n denote the relevant families of Newman and Littlewood polynomials of degree nn, and let NN and N~\widetilde N count zeros in the open unit disk with and without the specified unimodular-zero restriction, respectively. Central limit conjecture. For f∈N2n+1f\in\mathcal N_{2n+1} and g∈Lng\in\mathcal L_n, each standardized variable

N(f)−EN(f)var⁡(N(f)),N~(f)−EN~(f)var⁡(N~(f)),\frac{N(f)-\mathbb E N(f)}{\sqrt{\operatorname{var}(N(f))}},\quad \frac{\widetilde N(f)-\mathbb E\widetilde N(f)}{\sqrt{\operatorname{var}(\widetilde N(f))}}, N(g)−EN(g)var⁡(N(g)),N~(g)−EN~(g)var⁡(N~(g))\frac{N(g)-\mathbb E N(g)}{\sqrt{\operatorname{var}(N(g))}},\quad \frac{\widetilde N(g)-\mathbb E\widetilde N(g)}{\sqrt{\operatorname{var}(\widetilde N(g))}}

converges in distribution to Z(0,1)Z(0,1) as n→∞n\to\infty. The conjecture is motivated by the numerical distributions shown in the paper, and no proof or disproof is supplied in the given context.

References

Primary source

Kevin G. Hare and Jonas Jankauskas, “On Newman and Littlewood polynomials with prescribed number of zeros inside the unit disk”, arXiv:1910.13994 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1708.00967.

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