Polynomials in Control Theory Parametrized by Their Roots
Author(s) -
Baltazar AguirreHernández,
José Luis CisnerosMolina,
Martín-Eduardo Frías-Armenta
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of mathematics and mathematical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1687-0425
pISSN - 0161-1712
DOI - 10.1155/2012/595076
Subject(s) - mathematics , monic polynomial , contractible space , homeomorphism (graph theory) , pure mathematics , boundary (topology) , space (punctuation) , polynomial , aperiodic graph , complex quadratic polynomial , discrete mathematics , algebra over a field , combinatorics , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy
The aim of this paper is to introduce the space of roots to study the topological properties of the spaces of polynomials. Instead of identifying a monic complex polynomial with the vector of its coefficients, we identify it with the set of its roots. Viète's map gives a homeomorphism between the space of roots and the space of coefficients and it gives an explicit formula to relate both spaces. Using this viewpoint we establish that the space of monic (Schur or Hurwitz) aperiodic polynomials is contractible. Additionally we obtain a Boundary Theorem
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