This survey paper is devoted to inequalities for zeros of algebraic polynomials. We consider the various bounds for the moduli of the zeros, some related inequalities, as well as the location of the zeros of a polynomial, with a special emphasis on the zeros in a strip in the complex plane.

We discuss asymptotics of the zeros of orthogonal polynomials on the real line and on the unit circle when the recursion coefficients are periodic. The zeros on or near the absolutely continuous spectrum have a clock structure with spacings inverse to the density of zeros. Zeros away from the a.c. spectrum have limit points mod p and only finitely many of them.

We study the expected number of real zeros for random linear combinations of orthogonal polynomials. It is well known that Kac polynomials, spanned by monomials with i.i.d. Gaussian coefficients, have only (2/π + o(1)) logn expected real zeros in terms of the degree n. On the other hand, if the basis is given by Legendre (or more generally by Jacobi) polynomials, then random linear combinations...

We examine the electrostatic properties of exceptional and regular zeros of Xm-Laguerre and Xm-Jacobi polynomials. Since there is a close connection between the electrostatic properties of the zeros and the stability of interpolation on the system of zeros, we can deduce an Egerváry-Turán type result as well. The limit of the energy on the regular zeros is also investigated.

Stieltjes’ Theorem (cf. [11]) proves that if {pn}n=0 is an orthogonal sequence, then between any two consecutive zeros of pk there is at least one zero of pn for all positive integers k, k < n; a property called Stieltjes interlacing. We prove that Stieltjes interlacing extends across different sequences of Laguerre polynomials Ln, α > −1. In particular, we show that Stieltjes interlacing holds...

The relationship between point vortex dynamics and the properties of polynomials with roots at the vortex positions is discussed. Classical polynomials, such as the Hermite polynomials, have roots that describe the equilibria of identical vortices on the line. Stationary and uniformly translating vortex configurations with vortices of the same strength but positive or negative orientation are g...

Schur studied limits of the arithmetic means An of zeros for polynomials of degree n with integer coefficients and simple zeros in the closed unit disk. If the leading coefficients are bounded, Schur proved that lim supn→∞ |An| ≤ 1 − √ e/2. We show that An → 0, and estimate the rate of convergence by generalizing the Erdős-Turán theorem on the distribution of zeros. As an application, we show t...

In this paper we investigate some plane curves with many points over Q, finite fields and cyclotomic fields. In a previous paper [4] the first two authors constructed a sequence of absolutely irreducible polynomials Pd(x, y) ∈ Z[x, y] of degree d having low height and many integral solutions to Pd(x, y) = 0. (The definition of these polynomials will be recalled in §4.) Here we construct further...

In this paper, we present a unified grammatical interpretation of the numbers that satisfy kind four-term recurrence relation, including Bell triangle, coefficients modified Hermite polynomials, and Bessel polynomials. Additionally, as an application, criterion for real zeros row-generating polynomials is also presented.