It is well-known and easy to see that the zeros of both the associated polynomial and the derivative of an orthogonal polynomial pn(x) interlace with the zeros of pn(x) itself. The natural question of how these zeros interlace is under discussion. We give a sufficient condition for the mutual location of k-th, 1 ≤ k ≤ n − 1, zeros of the associated polynomial and the derivative of an orthogonal...

The zeros of generalized Krawtchouk polynomials are studied. Some interlacing theorems for the zeros are given. A new infinite family of integral zeros is given, and it is conjectured that these comprise most of the non-trivial zeros. The integral zeros for two families of q-Krawtchouk polynomials are classified.

Polynomials with perturbed coefficients, which can be regarded as interval polynomials, are very common in the area of scientific computing due to floating point operations in a computer environment. In this paper, the zeros of interval polynomials are investigated. We show that, for a degree n interval polynomial, the number of interval zeros is at most n and the number of complex block zeros ...

The geometry of polynomials explores geometrical relationships between the zeros and the coefficients of a polynomial. A classical problem in this theory is to locate the zeros of a given polynomial by determining disks in the complex plane in which all its zeros are situated. In this paper, we infer bounds for general polynomials and apply classical and new results to graph polynomials namely ...

Polynomial solutions to the generalized Lamé equation, the Stieltjes polynomials, and the associated Van Vleck polynomials have been studied since the 1830’s, beginning with Lamé in his studies of the Laplace equation on an ellipsoid, and in an ever widening variety of applications since. In this paper we show how the zeros of Stieltjes polynomials are distributed and present two new interlacin...

Linear operators which (1) preserve the reality of zeros of polynomials having only real zeros and (2) map stable polynomials into stable polynomials are investigated using recently established results concerning the zeros of certain Fox–Wright functions and generalized Mittag-Leffler functions. The paper includes several open problems and questions.  2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

We investigate monotonicity properties of extremal zeros of orthogonal polynomials depending on a parameter. Using a functional analysis method we prove the monotonicity of extreme zeros of associated Jacobi, associated Gegenbauer and q-Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials. We show how these results can be applied to prove interlacing of zeros of orthogonal polynomials with shifted parameters and to d...

Over the past ten years, many examples of natural polynomial families from combinatorics and number theory have emerged whose zeros for high degrees appear to converge to intriguing curves in the complex plane. One interesting collection of examples appears on the website [16] of Richard Stanley which includes chromatic polynomials of complete partite graphs, q-analogue of Catalan numbers, Bern...

This paper proves bounds for the zeros of complex valued polynomials. The assertions stated in this work have been specialized in the area of the location of zeros for complex polynomials in terms of two foci: (i) finding bounds for complex valued polynomials with special conditions for the coefficients and (ii) locating zeros of complex valued polynomials without special conditions for the coe...

and Applied Analysis 3 real and there is a need to locate their position. Moreover, the usual methods M1 – M3 mentioned before for the study of the zeros of Pn x may not apply at all, when Pn x are complex, or they may need serious modifications. Instead, the M4 method can be used directly. Such a functional analytic methodwas introduced in 10 andwas successfully used in a series of papers by t...