Unimodularity of zeros of self-inversive polynomials

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Abstract: We generalise a necessary and sufficient condition given by Cohn for all the zeros of a self-inversive polynomial to be on the unit circle. Our theorem implies some sufficient conditions found by Lakatos, Losonczi and Schinzel. We apply our result to the study of a polynomial family closely related to Ramanujan polynomials, recently introduced by Gun, Murty and Rath, and studied by Murty, Smyth and Wang and Lal'in and Rogers. We prove that all polynomials in this family have their zeros on the unit circle, a result conjectured by Lal'in and Rogers on computational evidence.


The main result is the following generalization of a theorem of \textit{A. Cohn} [Math. Zeitschr. 14, 110--148 (1922; JFM 48.0083.01)]. Let \(h(z)\) be a nonzero complex polynomial of degree \(n\) having all its zeros in the closed unit disc \(| z| \leq 1.\) Then for \(d>n\) and any \(\lambda\) on the unit circle, the self-inversive polynomial \[ P^{\{\lambda\}}(z)=z^{d-n}h(z)+\lambda z^n\bar{h}(1/z) \] has all its zeros on the unit circle. Conversely, given a self-inversive polynomial \(P(z)\) having all its zeros on the unit circle, there is a polynomial \(h\) having all its zeros in \(| z| \leq 1\) such that \(P\) has the above representation. In particular, one can take \(h(z)=\frac{1}{d}P'(z).\) This result is applied to show that all zeros of the polynomials \[ P_k(z)=\frac{(2\pi)^{2k-1}}{(2k)!}\sum\limits_{j=0}^k(-1)^jB_{2j}B_{2k-2j}\binom{2k}{2j}z^{2j}+\zeta(2k-1)(z^{2k-1}+(-1)^kz) \] (where \(B_{2j}\) are the Bernoulli numbers) are on the unit circle. Similar results are proved for two other polynomial families of interest.




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