Resolving algebraic equations by contour integrals

Publication date 2 November 2002

Published in Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Analysis. Armenian Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

exact formulas roots of polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Integration, integrals of Cauchy type, integral representations of analytic functions in the complex plane (30E20)

Review text

Roots of some non-linear equations can be found explicitly by making use of simple complex analysis [see, e.g., \textit{P. Kravanja} and \textit{M. Van Barel}, Computing the zeros of analytic functions. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1727. Berlin: Springer (2000; Zbl 0945.65018), or the reviewer's note, Zesz. Nauk. Uniw. Jagiell., Univ. Iagell. 1245, Acta Math. 38, 299--305 (2000; Zbl 1001.30008)] and the references therein. In the paper under review the author derives explicit formulas for all the roots \(z_k\) of a polynomial of degree \(n\) as contour integrals \[ z_k = \frac{1}{2\pi i} \int _{\gamma _k} \frac{z P_k'(z) dz}{P_k (z)}, k=1,2, \ldots ,n \] where the contours \(\gamma _k\) and the polynomials \(P_k\) of degrees not greater than \(n\) are given in the paper.

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