A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Local Maxima of Polynomial Modulus Over Unit Disc

Abstract: An important quantity associated with a complex polynomial

p (z)

is

V e r t p V e r t_{i} n f t y

, the maximum of its modulus over the unit disc

D

. We prove,

z_{*} i n D

is a local maximum of

| p (z) |

if and only if

a_{*}

satisfies,

z_{*} = p (z_{*}) | p^{'} (z_{*}) | / p^{'} (z_{*}) | p (z_{*}) |

, i.e. it is proportional to its corresponding Newton direction. This explicit formula gives rise to novel iterative algorithms for computing

V e r t p V e r t_{i} n f t y

. We describe two such algorithms, including a Newton-like method and present some visualization of their performance.

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