Alexandre Eremenko
(Purdue University)
"Polya's conjecture on zeros of successive derivatives of real entire functions"
Abstract: This talk is based on a joint work with Walter Bergweiler. We prove Polya's conjecture of 1943: For a real entire function of order greater than 2, with finitely many non-real zeros, the number of non-real zeros of the n-th derivative tends to infinity as n tends to infinity. We use the saddle point method and potential theory, combined with the theory of analytic functions with positive imaginary part in the upper half-plane.