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Estimates of Zeros of a Polynomial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. Mirsky
Affiliation:
Department of Pure MathematicsUniversity of Sheffield

Extract

Throughout this note we shall consider a fixed polynomial with complex coefficients and of degree n ≥ 2. Its zeros will be denoted by ξ1, ξ2, …, ξn where the numbering is such that Making use of Jensen's integral formula, Mahler (4) showed that, for l ≥ k < n, A slightly weaker result had been established by Feldman in an earlier publication (2). Mahler's inequality (1) is of importance in the study of transcendental numbers, and our first object is to sharpen his bound by proving the following result.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1962

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