The Hawaiian conjecture on chords of the garden of a logarithmic derivative

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Let PP be a real polynomial of degree nn, and let GP\mathcal{G}_{P} be the garden of the rational function P/PP'/P. A chord of GP\mathcal{G}_{P} is a chord in this garden; the source also notes that all zeros of PP lie on GP\mathcal{G}_{P}.

Hawaiian conjecture. Each chord of GP\mathcal{G}_{P} contains at least one nonreal zero of PP.

The conjecture is formulated as a topological strengthening of the zero bound for the Wronskian W(P,P)W(P,P'): the endpoints of the chords are the real zeros of that Wronskian. The source states that this conjecture would immediately imply the Hawaii conjecture, but gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Julius Borcea and Boris Shapiro, “Classifying real polynomial pencils”, arXiv:math/0404215 (2004).

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