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Crystallization of random trigonometric polynomials

David W. Farmer, Mark Yerrington

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0601007

Abstract

We give a precise measure of the rate at which repeated differentiation of a random trigonometric polynomial causes the roots of the function to approach equal spacing. This can be viewed as a toy model of crystallization in one dimension. In particular we determine the asymptotics of the distribution of the roots around the crystalline configuration and find that the distribution is not Gaussian.

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