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Zeros of Harmonic Functions whose Caustic is a Non-Singular Image of an Epicycloid

2025/08/08 by Sampson, Eli
#Complex Variables (math.CV) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.06724

Abstract

Recent researchers have investigated how the zeros of certain families of complex harmonic functions change with a single parameter. Many leverage the well-behaved images of the critical curve and the harmonic analogue of the Argument Principle to prove zero-counting theorems. In this paper, we investigate the zeros of a family of harmonic functions for which the image of its critical curve is a non-singular linear image of an epicycloid. By analyzing this curve and using the harmonic analogue of the Argument Principle, we obtain a detailed zero-counting theorem for our family.

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