Equilibrium Laws for Julia's Zero and the Hyperbolic Zero of Binary Forms
Abstract
For a real binary form with no real roots, Julia's zero and the hyperbolic zero are two SL(2,R)-equivariant points in the upper half-plane. We show that they admit closely related equilibrium characterizations, with radial weights given respectively by the hyperbolic tangent and hyperbolic sine of the distances to the roots. This common framework gives geometric criteria for coincidence of the two zero maps. They always agree for binary quartics; for binary sextics they agree exactly when the three upper-half-plane roots form an equilateral hyperbolic triangle, or are collinear with one root the hyperbolic midpoint of the other two. We also obtain a corresponding result for collinear binary octics. The two equilibrium laws further reveal a sharp difference in the influence of distant roots. A strict majority of roots confined to a compact set keeps Julia's zero in a compact set, and the threshold one-half is optimal. In contrast, an escaping minority can force the hyperbolic zero to escape at linear scale. We also illustrate the computational advantages of the explicit formula for the hyperbolic zero.
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BibTeX
@misc{elezi2026equilibrium,
title = {{Equilibrium Laws for Julia's Zero and the Hyperbolic Zero of Binary Forms}},
author = {Artur Elezi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.27876},
eprint = {2608.27876},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27876},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Equilibrium Laws for Julia's Zero and the Hyperbolic Zero of Binary Forms
AU - Artur Elezi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.27876
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27876
AB - For a real binary form with no real roots, Julia's zero and the hyperbolic zero are two SL(2,R)-equivariant points in the upper half-plane. We show that they admit closely related equilibrium characterizations, with radial weights given respectively by the hyperbolic tangent and hyperbolic sine of the distances to the roots. This common framework gives geometric criteria for coincidence of the two zero maps. They always agree for binary quartics; for binary sextics they agree exactly when the three upper-half-plane roots form an equilateral hyperbolic triangle, or are collinear with one root the hyperbolic midpoint of the other two. We also obtain a corresponding result for collinear binary octics. The two equilibrium laws further reveal a sharp difference in the influence of distant roots. A strict majority of roots confined to a compact set keeps Julia's zero in a compact set, and the threshold one-half is optimal. In contrast, an escaping minority can force the hyperbolic zero to escape at linear scale. We also illustrate the computational advantages of the explicit formula for the hyperbolic zero.
ER -