Arguments of zeros of highly log concave polynomials

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2013-43-1-149MaRDI QIDQ1951349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Handelman

Publication date 5 June 2013

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.6022, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1370267183

zbMATH Keywords

log-concavityreal polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic combinatorics (05E99) Real polynomials: location of zeros (26C10) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15)

Abstract: For a real polynomial $p=su{m}_{i=0}^n{c}_i{x}^i$ with no negative coefficients and $ngeq6$, let $$ (so $$ entails that $p$ is log concave). If $$, then all roots of $p$ are in the left half plane, and moreover, there is a function $$ (for $pi/2leqhetaleqpi$) st $$ entails all roots of $p$ have arguments in the sector $|argz|geqheta$ with the smallest possible $heta$; we determine exactly what this function (and its inverse) is (it turns out to be piecewise smooth, and quite tractible). This is a one-parameter extension of Kurtz's theorem (which asserts that $$ entails all roots are real). We also prove a version of Kurtz's theorem with real (not necessarily nonnegative) coefficients.

Review text

The paper is concerned with conditions on polynomials guaranteeing that all roots lie in the sectors of the form \(\left\{ z\in {\mathbb C} : \left| \arg z\right| >\theta \right\} \) for all \(\theta \) with \(\pi >\theta \geq {\pi \over 2}\). Given a real polynomial \(p=\sum\limits_{i=0}^{n}c_{i}x^{i}\) with non-negative coefficients and \(n\geq 6\), put \(\beta (p):=\inf \left\{ {c_{i}^{2} \over c_{i+1}c_{i-1}} : i=1,\dots,n-1\right\}\) (so \(\beta (p)\geq 1\) entails that \(p\) is log concave). In particular, the author proves that if \(\beta (p)>1.45\dots\), then all roots of \(p\) are in the left half plane and, moreover, there is a function \(\beta_{0}(\theta)\) (for \({\pi \over 2} \leq \theta \leq \pi \)) such that if \(\beta \left( p\right) \geq \beta _{0}\left( \theta \right) \), then all zeros of \(p\) have arguments in the sector \(\left| \arg z\right| \geq \theta \) with the smallest possible \(\theta \). He determines this function and its inverse. This extends an earlier result by J. I. Hutchinson and D. C. Kurtz saying that if \(\beta \geq 4\), then all roots are real.

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