Two inequalities on the areal Mahler measure

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Abstract: Recent work of Pritsker defines and studies an areal version of the Mahler measure. We further explore this function with a particular focus on the case where its value is small, as this is most relevant to Lehmer's conjecture. In this situation, we provide improvements to two inequalities established in Pritsker's original paper.


An areal analogue of Mahler measure for polynomial \(P \in \mathbb{C}[z]\) was defined by Pritsker as \[ \log ||P||_0=\frac{1}{\pi} \int\int_{D} \log|P(z)|\, dA, \] where the integral is taken over the closed unit disc \(D\) (whose area is \(\pi\)). Pritsker showed that they are related with classical Mahler measure in view of \[ \log ||P||_0=\log M(P) +\frac{1}{2} \sum_{|z_n|<1}(|z_n|^2-1), \] so that \(-\deg P/2+\log M(P) \leq \log ||P||_0 \leq \log M(P).\) In this paper the authors show that for each \(P \in \mathbb{C}[z]\) satisfying \(|P(0)|=1\) we have \(\log ||P||_0 \leq \log^2 M(P)\). They also show that if \(Z(P)\) is the number of roots of \(P\) that lie inside the open unit disc then \[ \frac{\log^2 M(P)}{Z(P)} \leq \log ||P||_0 \Big(1+ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \Big(\sum_{\ell=1}^{k+1} \frac{1}{\ell(k+2-\ell)}-\frac{1}{k+2}\Big)\log^{k/2} ||P||_0\Big). \]











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