Smale's mean-value conjecture for polynomial critical points

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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 p′p' satisfies

p(μj)μj≤p′(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.

References

Primary source

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

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