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On a Conjecture of S. Stahl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Yichao Chen*
Affiliation:
College of Mathematics and Econometrics, Hu nan University, Changsha, China
Yanpei Liu*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Beijing JiaoTong University, Beijing, China
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Abstract

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S. Stahl conjectured that the zeros of genus polynomials are real. In this note, we disprove this conjecture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2010

Footnotes

This work was supported by the NNSFC under Grant No. 10901048.

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