Dual Smale's mean value conjecture for complex polynomials
Let be a complex polynomial of degree satisfying and . A point is a critical point of when . Dual Smale's mean value conjecture. There exists a critical point of such that
This is the dual counterpart of Smale's mean value conjecture and was independently proposed by Dubinin--Sugawa and Ng. The paper proves it for odd polynomials with nonzero linear term, while the stated conjecture for general complex polynomials remains open.
References
Primary source
Quanyu Tang, “Dual Smale's mean value conjecture for odd polynomials”, arXiv:2510.16875 (2025).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2303.17586.
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