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teorth/sendov

Terence Tao

Palomar Registrypalomar/PALOMAR-2026-08-13-000001Aug 20, 2026math.CVscore 0

A Lean formalization of Sendov's conjecture, and of its Phelps-Rodriguez strengthening, in full generality: if every zero of a complex polynomial p of degree n >= 2 lies in the closed unit disk, then every zero a of p has a critical point of p within distance 1 of it, and within distance strictly less than 1 unless |a| = 1 and p is a scalar multiple of z^n - a^n. The proof is by contradiction. Degrees 2 to 4 fall to an elementary integral computation; degree 5 upward goes through two estimates on the same integral -- a polar channel and an origin channel -- which are shown to be…

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