Traub's basin conjecture for polynomial root-finding maps

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Let pp be a polynomial of degree d2d\geq 2. Assume that p(α)=0p(\alpha)=0, and let Tp,1T_{p,1} be the corresponding Traub's map. Denote by A(α)\mathcal A^{\star}(\alpha) the basin of attraction of the root α\alpha with the root itself removed. Traub's basin conjecture. The set A(α)\mathcal A^{\star}(\alpha) is simply connected and unbounded. The conjecture would extend the known basin results for Newton's method to Traub's method and would help construct a set of good initial conditions for finding all roots simultaneously. Its resolution is not established in the supplied source.

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Jordi Canela, Vasiliki Evdoridou, Antonio Garijo and Xavier Jarque, “On the basins of attraction of a one-dimensional family of root finding algorithms: from Newton to Traub”, arXiv:2501.04450 (2025).

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