Rational functions with real critical points and the B. and M. Shapiro conjecture in real enumerative geometry

Details Rational functions with real critical points and the B. and M. Shapiro conjecture in real enumerative geometry Rational functions with real critical points and the B. and M. Shapiro conjecture in real enumerative geometry

2004-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/math/0405196v1

Ann. of Math. (2) 155 (2002), no. 1, 105--129

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Algebraic Geometry

25 pages, published version

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Suppose that 2d-2 tangent lines to the rational normal curve z\mapsto (1 : z : ... : z^d) in d-dimensional complex projective space are given. It was known that the number of codimension 2 subspaces intersecting all these lines is always finite; for a generic configuration it is equal to the d^{th} Catalan number. We prove that for real tangent lines, all these codimension 2 subspaces are also real, thus confirming a special case of a general conjecture of B. and M. Shapiro. This is equivalent to the following result: If all critical points of a rational function lie on a circle in the Riemann sphere (for example on the real line), then the function maps this circle into a circle.

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