Category:Variations in Sign of Polynomial
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This category contains results about Variations in Sign of Polynomial.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Variations in Sign of Polynomial.
Let $\map P x$ be a polynomial equation over the real numbers:
- $\pm a_n x^n \mathop \pm a_{n - 1} x^{n - 1} \mathop \pm \cdots \mathop \pm a_1 x \mathop \pm a_0 = 0$
where:
- the independent variable $x \in \R$ is real
- the coefficients $a_j \in \R_{\ge 0}$ are all non-negative constants
- each of the $\pm$ signs can be either positive or negative.
A variation in sign of the coefficients of $\map P x$ is an instance of $j \in \set {0, 1, \ldots, n}$ in which a $\pm$ sign changes from positive to negative, or vice versa, as $j$ goes from $n$ to $0$, ignoring zero coefficients.
That is, it is a change of sign in the tuple $\tuple {a_n, a_{n - 1}, \ldots, a_0}$.
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