Schoenberg's inequality for polynomial zeros and critical points

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Let FF be a complex polynomial of degree n≥2n\geq 2 with zeros z1,…,znz_1,\dots,z_n and critical points w1,…,wn−1w_1,\dots,w_{n-1}. Schoenberg's conjecture.

∑j=1n−1∣wj∣2≤1n2∣∑k=1nzk∣2+n−2n∑k=1n∣zk∣2,\sum_{j=1}^{n-1}|w_j|^2\leq \frac{1}{n^2}\left|\sum_{k=1}^n z_k\right|^2+\frac{n-2}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n|z_k|^2,

with equality if and only if all z1,…,znz_1,\dots,z_n are collinear in the complex plane. The conjecture was confirmed independently by Pereira and Malamud, and later reproved by Cheung--Ng and Kushel--Tyaglov.

References

Primary source

Teng Zhang, “A refinement of Pawlowski's result”, arXiv:2411.07105 (2025).

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