Krasikov's discrete Laguerre inequality for polynomials

Let L-Pn\mathcal{L}\text{-}\mathcal{P}_n denote the real polynomials of degree nn with only real zeros. For such a polynomial pp, let μ(p)\mu(p) be the minimum spacing between neighboring zeros. Krasikov's conjecture. If p(x)L-Pnp(x)\in\mathcal{L}\text{-}\mathcal{P}_n and μ(p)1\mu(p)\ge 1, then

(n1)[p(x+1)p(x1)]24np(x)[p(x+1)2p(x)+p(x1)]0(n-1)[p(x+1)-p(x-1)]^2-4np(x)[p(x+1)-2p(x)+p(x-1)]\ge 0

for all xRx\in\mathbb{R}. This discrete analogue of the classical Laguerre inequality is proved in the paper, so the conjecture is solved.

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George Csordas and Matthew Chasse, “Discrete analogues of the Laguerre inequalities and a conjecture of I. Krasikov”, arXiv:1005.5186 (2010).

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