Dual Smale's mean value conjecture for complex polynomials

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Let PP be a complex polynomial of degree n≥2n\ge2 satisfying P(0)=0P(0)=0 and P′(0)=1P'(0)=1. A point ζ\zeta is a critical point of PP when P′(ζ)=0P'(\zeta)=0. Dual Smale's mean value conjecture. There exists a critical point ζ\zeta of PP such that

∣P(ζ)ζ∣≥1n.\left|\frac{P(\zeta)}{\zeta}\right|\ge \frac1n.

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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