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The peculiar (monic) polynomials, the zeros of which equal their coefficients

Mathematical Physics 2017-06-13 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We evaluate the number of monic polynomials (of arbitrary degree NN) the zeros of which equal their coefficients when these are allowed to take arbitrary complex values. In the following, we call polynomials with this property {\em peculiar\/} polynomials. We further show that the problem of determining the peculiar polynomials of degree NN simplifies when any of the coefficients is either 0 or 1. We proceed to estimate the numbers of peculiar polynomials of degree NN having one coefficient zero, or one coefficient equal to one, or neither.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03405,
  title  = {The peculiar (monic) polynomials, the zeros of which equal their coefficients},
  author = {Francesco Calogero and Francois Leyvraz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03405},
  year   = {2017}
}

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15 pages