Spectral fractorization of Laurent polynomials (Q1371969)

The authors analyze the results of numerical experiments for factoring a Laurent polynomial \(a(z)= \sum^m_{j=-m} a_jz^j\), \(a_j=\overline a_j= a_{-j}\), \(a(z)\geq 0\), \(|z|=1\). Five numerical methods are tested: the Bauer method, the Wilson method, the roots method, the minimum phase method and the Cepstral method. It is demonstrated that the quality of the method may be influenced by the following three parameters: the ratio \(\max|a_j|/\min|a_j|\), the minimum distance of zeros of \(a(z)\) from the unit circle and the minimum distance between the zeros of \(a(z)\). Among these five methods, only the Wilson method is not significantly influenced by these parameters and can be considered to be an all-purpose method.