A min-max theorem for sums of translates of a function

DOI10.1006/JMAA.1999.6702MaRDI QIDQ1973956zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. C. Fenton

Publication date 19 November 2000

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jmaa.1999.6702

zbMATH Keywords

min-max theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35)

Review text

This note concerns the best choice of a partition of the interval [0,1]. Such a partition minimizes a certain max function. The author solves this very special min-max problem. As an application, he considers the configuration of zeros for a polynomial with real coefficients.

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