Almost sure behavior of the zeros of iterated derivatives of random polynomials

Abstract

Let $Z_1,Z_2,\dots$ be independent and identically distributed complex random variables with common distribution $\mu$ and set $$P_n(z):=(z-Z_1)\cdots (z-Z_n).$$ Recently, Angst, Malicet and Poly proved that the critical points of $P_n$ converge in an almost-sure sense to the measure $\mu$ as $n$ tends to infinity, thereby confirming a conjecture of Cheung-Ng-Yam and Kabluchko. In this short note, we prove for any fixed $k\in \mathbb{N}$, the empirical measure of zeros of the $k$th derivative of $P_n$ converges to $\mu$ in the almost sure sense, as conjectured by Angst-Malicet-Poly.

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