Smale's mean-value conjecture for polynomial critical points

Let pp be a polynomial of degree nn with p(0)=0p(0)=0 and p(0)0p'(0)\neq0. Smale's conjecture. At least one root μj\mu_j of pp' satisfies

p(μj)μjp(0).\frac{p(\mu_j)}{\mu_j}\leq p'(0).

The source lists this among open conjectures in the geometry of polynomials and gives no resolution.

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K. M. R. Audenaert and F. Kittaneh, “Problems and Conjectures in Matrix and Operator Inequalities”, arXiv:1201.5232 (2012).

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