Saturday, 16 March 2013

polynomials - Sum of Non Real Roots of Quartic?

Consider f(x)=8x416x3+16x28x+k=0 where kR,then find sum of non Real roots of f(x).




My approach:



we have f(x)=32x348x2+32x8=0 Also



f so f'(x) is strictly increasing and hence has only one real root x_0 in (0 \:\:1),
So f(x) has Local Minima at x=x_0 and no Local Maxima. So f(x) must have eactly two Real roots and two Complex Roots. Also f(0)=k=f(1) and since f(x) has Local Minima at x_0 where $0

Now let the roots of f(x) be a,b, p+iq and p-iq where a,b,p,q \in \mathbb{R} We need to find value of 2p...Now using relationships between coefficients and roots of f(x) we have




a+b+2p=2 \tag{1}



ab+(p^2+q^2)=(2p-1)^2+1 \tag{2}



ab(2p)+(p^2+q^2)(2-2p)=1 \tag{3}



(ab)(p^2+q^2)=\frac{k}{8} \tag{4}



Since a and b lie in the interval (0\:\: 1) we have




0\le a+b \le 1 \implies



0 \le 2-2p \le 1 \implies



1 \le 2p \le 2 but unable to find exact value of 2p...any help will be greatly appreciated.

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