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Universality for roots of derivatives of entire functions

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August 7, 2025
Abstract
We show for a large class of entire functions, f, that after proper rescaling, on compact sets, the derivatives of f converge to cosine, in particular their roots become evenly spaced. This proves a conjecture of Farmer and Rhoades [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 357(9):3789–3811, 2005] and Farmer [Adv. Math., 411:Paper No. 108781, 14, 2022] for our class of entire functions. A main ingredient of our proof is to show that high derivatives of high degree polynomials behave like Hermite polynomials, which we prove using the techniques from the newly developed field of finite free probability.