Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2021
For every $m\in \mathbb {N}$, we establish the equidistribution of the sequence of the averaged pullbacks of a Dirac measure at any given value in
$\mathbb {C}\setminus \{0\}$ under the
$m$th order derivatives of the iterates of a polynomials
$f\in \mathbb {C}[z]$ of degree
$d>1$ towards the harmonic measure of the filled-in Julia set of f with pole at
$\infty $. We also establish non-archimedean and arithmetic counterparts using the potential theory on the Berkovich projective line and the adelic equidistribution theory over a number field k for a sequence of effective divisors on
$\mathbb {P}^1(\overline {k})$ having small diagonals and small heights. We show a similar result on the equidistribution of the analytic sets where the derivative of each iterate of a Hénon-type polynomial automorphism of
$\mathbb {C}^2$ has a given eigenvalue.