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A sufficient condition for a polynomial to be stable

2008, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Abstract

A real polynomial is called Hurwitz (stable) if all its zeros have negative real parts. For a given n ∈ N we find the smallest possible constant d n > 0 such that if the coefficients of F (z) = a 0 + a 1 z + • • • + a n z n are positive and satisfy the inequalities a k a k+1 > d n a k−1 a k+2 for k = 1, 2,. .. ,n − 2, then F (z) is Hurwitz.