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We prove Pólya’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 $$n\to\infty$$ . 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.

We show that if the graph of an analytic function in the unit disk$D$is not complete pluripolar in$C$^{2}then the projection of its pluripolar hull contains a fine neighborhood of a point $p\in\partial\mathbf{D}$ . Moreover the projection of the pluripolar hull is always finely open. On the other hand we show that if an analytic function$f$in$D$extends to a function ℱ which is defined on a fine neighborhood of a point $p\in\partial\mathbf{D}$ and is finely analytic at$p$then the pluripolar hull of the graph of$f$contains the graph of ℱ over a smaller fine neighborhood of$p$. We give several examples of functions with this property of fine analytic continuation. As a corollary we obtain new classes of analytic functions in the disk which have non-trivial pluripolar hulls, among them$C$^{∞}functions on the closed unit disk which are nowhere analytically extendible and have infinitely-sheeted pluripolar hulls. Previous examples of functions with non-trivial pluripolar hull of the graph have fine analytic continuation.

Given a domain Ω⊂ℂ^{$n$}, the Lempert function is a functional on the space $\text{Hol}(\mathbb{D},\Omega)$ of analytic disks with values in Ω, depending on a set of poles in Ω. We generalize its definition to the case where poles have multiplicities given by local indicators (in the sense of Rashkovskii) to obtain a function which still dominates the corresponding Green function, behaves relatively well under limits, and is monotonic with respect to the local indicators. In particular, this is an improvement over the previous generalization used by the same authors to find an example of a set of poles in the bidisk so that the (usual) Green and Lempert functions differ.