{ "id": "2112.04208", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-12-08T10:14:39.000Z", "updated": "2021-12-08T10:14:39.000Z", "title": "An elementary proof of Takagi's theorem on the differential composition of polynomials", "authors": [ "Alan D. Sokal" ], "comment": "LaTeX2e, 4 pages. Accepted for publication in the American Mathematical Monthly", "journal": "Amer. Math. Monthly 129, 381--384 (2022)", "doi": "10.1080/00029890.2022.2027719", "categories": [ "math.CA", "math.CV" ], "abstract": "I give a short and completely elementary proof of Takagi's 1921 theorem on the zeros of a composite polynomial $f(d/dz) \\, g(z)$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-12-08T10:14:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "30C15", "30C10" ], "keywords": [ "elementary proof", "differential composition", "takagis theorem" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Taylor-Francis" }, "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }