Some Riemannian geometric proofs of the fundamental theorem of algebra
If a (non-constant) polynomial has no zero, then a certain Riemannian metric is constructed on the two dimensional sphere. Several geometric arguments are then shown to contradict this fact. M.S.C. 2010: 12E05, 53C20.
Yet another application of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for the sphere
where K and dAg denote the Gaussian curvature and the area element of g, respectively. In particular, this implies the existence of at least an elliptic point of (S, g). In this short note we prove the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra as a consequence of this fact. As far as the authors know, this proof is new. Moreover, it does have the advantage of being directly based on the work of Gauss, who was the first mathematician giving an universally accepted proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (see [2], [3]). Hence our argument can also have some historical and pedagogical interest. As it is well known, the stereographic projection allows to identify the sphere S with the one-point compactification Ĉ = C ∪ {∞} of the complex plane C. Let us take p(z) = a0 + a1z+ · · ·+ anz n with a0 an 6= 0 and let us assume that p(z) 6= 0 for all z ∈ C. We set p∗(z) = an + an−1z + · · ·a0z , that is, the i-th coefficient of p∗(z) is the (n− i)-th coefficient of p(z). Clearly, p∗(z) = z n p(1/z) for all z ∈ C \ {0}. Put
A new class of numerical sequences and its applications to sine and cosine series
First, it is proved that the class of classical quasi-monotone sequences is not comparable to the newly defined class of sequences of ‘rest bounded variation’. Considering this result, we prove three sample theorems for sequences of rest bounded variation, being analogues of the theorems proved earlier for monotone or quasi-monotone sequences. One of them gives a partial answer to a question raised by R. P. Boas Jr.