Abstract
We specify a small set, consisting of O ( d ( log ⁡ log ⁡ d ) 2 ) O(d(\log \log d)^2) points, that intersects the basins under Newton’s method of all roots of all (suitably normalized) complex polynomials of fixed degrees d d , with arbitrarily high probability. This set is an efficient and universal probabilistic set of starting points to find all roots of polynomials of degree d d using Newton’s method; the best known deterministic set of starting points consists of ⌈ 1.1 d ( log ⁡ d ) 2 ⌉ \lceil 1.1d(\log d)^2\rceil points.

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