The Minkowski inequality for the discriminant of finite free convolutions

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Let pp and qq be degree-dd polynomials, let p⊞dqp\boxplus_d q denote their finite free convolution, and let Dis⁡(p)\operatorname{Dis}(p) denote the discriminant of pp. Minkowski inequality.

Dis⁡(p⊞dq)1(d2)≥Dis⁡(p)1(d2)+Dis⁡(q)1(d2)\operatorname{Dis}(p \boxplus_d q)^{\frac{1}{\binom{d}{2}}} \geq \operatorname{Dis}(p)^{\frac{1}{\binom{d}{2}}}+\operatorname{Dis}(q)^{\frac{1}{\binom{d}{2}}}

Equality holds only for generalized Hermite polynomials. This is presented as a broader inequality related to the entropy and log-discriminant of a polynomial; the supplied text does not establish whether the inequality or its equality characterization is proved or remains open.

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Aurelien Gribinski, “A notion of entropy on the roots of polynomials”, arXiv:1907.12826 (2023).

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