On the maximum modulus of polynomials not vanishing inside the unit circle (Q4248045)

In this paper the following result is proved: Theorem. Let \(p(z) =a_0+a_1z+ \cdots+ a_nz^n\) be a polynomial of degree \(n\) and let \[ M(p,R)= \max_{| z|=R} \bigl| p(z)\bigr|,\;\bigl\| p(z)\bigr\|= M(p,1)= \max_{| z|=1} \bigl| p(z)\bigl |. \] If \(p(z)\neq 0\) in \(| z|<1\), then for \(R\geq 1\), we have \[ \begin{multlined} M(p,R)\leq{R^n+1 \over 2}\| p\|-{R^n-1 \over 2}m\\ -{n\over 2}{(\| p\|-m)^2-4| a_n |^2 \over\| p\|-m}\left\{{(R-1) (\| p\|-m) \over\| p \|-m+ 2| a_n|} -\log \left(1+ {(R-1)(\| p\|-m) \over\| p \|-m+2 | a_n|} \right) \right\}.\end{multlined} \] where \(m=\min_{| z |=1}| p(z)|\). The result is the best possible and equality holds for the polynomial \(p(z)=\lambda+\mu z^n\), \(|\lambda |=| \mu|\). This result generalizes the known results of Ankeney and Rivlin (1955), Rahman (1976), Aziz and Dawood (1988) and Govil (1989).