Hyperbolic polynomials and canonical sign patterns
Descartes' rule of signs, described by René Descartes in his \textit{La Géométrie}, counts the roots of a polynomial by examining sign changes in its coefficients. It was published in 1637 as an appendix to \textit{Discours de la méthode}. A real polynomial in one variable is said to be hyperbolic if it has only real roots.\NSuch polynomials arise in a natural way in many contexts, i.e. as characteristic polynomials of symmetric matrices and as classic orthogonal polynomials.\N\par\NIn the paper under review, the author considers hyperbolic polynomials with nonvanishing coefficients such that the moduli of all roots are pairwise different.\NBy Descartes' rule of signs such a polynomial has \(c\) positive and \(p\) negative roots, where \(c\) and \(p\) are the numbers of sign changes and sign preservations in the sequence of its coefficients.\N\NThe author studies the following problem: If the moduli of all \(c+p\) roots are ordered on the positive half-axis, what are the possible positions of the moduli of negative roots, depending on the positions of the positive and negative signs of the coefficients of the polynomial? A special attention is paid to the choices of these signs for which exactly one order of the moduli of the roots is possible.
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