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Sector Analogue of the Gauss–Lucas Theorem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019
Abstract
The classical Gauss–Lucas theorem states that the critical points of a polynomial with complex coefficients are in the convex hull of its zeros. This fundamental theorem follows from the fact that if all the zeros of a polynomial are in a half plane, then the same is true for its critical points. The main result of this work replaces the half plane with a sector as follows.
We show that if the coefficients of a monic polynomial $p(z)$ are in the sector {tei𝜓 : 𝜓∈ [0, 𝜙], t⩾0}, for some $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}\in [0,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B})$, and the zeros are not in its interior, then the critical points of $p(z)$ are also not in the interior of that sector.
In addition, we give a necessary condition for a polynomial to satisfy the premise of the main result.
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The first author was partly supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under project FNI I 20/20 “Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Large-Scale Computational Problems”. The second author was partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.
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