Fisk's Legendre zero-preservation conjecture

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Let f(x)=∑k=0nakxk∈R[x]f(x)=\sum_{k=0}^n a_kx^k\in\mathbb{R}[x] have all its zeros in (−1,1)(-1,1), and define the linear transformation TT by

T[f](x)=∑k=0nakPk(x),T[f](x)=\sum_{k=0}^n a_kP_k(x),

where Pk(x)P_k(x) is the kk-th Legendre polynomial. Fisk's conjecture. The polynomial T[f](x)T[f](x) has all its zeros in (−1,1)(-1,1). The paper states that this conjecture is proved there; it had previously been left open in Fisk's book.

References

Primary source

Matthew Chasse, “Monomial to ultraspherical basis transformation and the zeros of polynomials”, arXiv:1406.6880 (2014).

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