On the paths to the zeros of a polynomial

DOI10.1155/S1025583499000302MaRDI QIDQ1125216zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 18 September 2000

Published in Journal of Inequalities and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/120491

zbMATH Keywords

altitude of pathdirect path to zero

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials and rational functions of one complex variable (30C10) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15)

Review text

Let \(P(z)=(z-z_1) (z-z_2) \cdots(z-z_n)\). The direct path from 0 to the root \(z_i\) is the set \(\{P(tz_i)\): \(0\leq t\leq 1\}\). In this paper the author studies the altitude \(|P(tz_i)|\) of this path. He shows that there is always a zero towards which the direct path declines near 0, that is, \(|P(tz_i) |\leq|P(0)|\) if \(t\) is small enough. He shows, however, that starting with degree 5, there are polynomials for which no direct path constantly remains below the altitude 1.

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