{ "id": "1703.03313", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-03-09T15:57:56.000Z", "updated": "2017-03-09T15:57:56.000Z", "title": "On realizability of sign patterns by real polynomials", "authors": [ "Vladimir Petrov Kostov" ], "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "The classical Descartes' rule of signs limits the number of positive roots of a real polynomial in one variable by the number of sign changes in the sequence of its coefficients. One can ask the question which pairs of nonnegative integers $(p,n)$, chosen in accordance with this rule and with some other natural conditions, can be the pairs of numbers of positive and negative roots of a real polynomial with prescribed signs of the coefficients. The paper solves this problem for degree $8$ polynomials.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-03-09T15:57:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "real polynomial", "sign patterns", "realizability", "signs limits", "natural conditions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }