Reciprocal Polynomials with Zeros on the Unit Circle and Derivatives of Chebyshev Polynomials of the Second Kind

Abstract

In this article, we consider the reciprocal antisymmetric polynomial \[P(z) = \sum_{j = 0}^{s}(-1)^j\gamma_j\left(z^j - z^{N + s + 1 - j}\right), \ \gamma_0 = 1.\] It is shown that if all the zeros of $P(z)$ are located on the unit circle, that $\displaystyle\left|\gamma_j\right| \leq {s \choose j}\left({N + s + 1 \choose j}\right)^{-1}$, $j = 1,\ldots,s$; moreover, these estimates cannot be improved in the general case. Factorization formulas for extremal polynomials are given: \[ \begin{align} \phantom{a} & \sum_{j = 0}^{s}(-1)^j{s \choose j}\left({N + s + 1 \choose j}\right)^{-1}\left(z^j - z^{N + s + 1 - j}\right) \\ &= (1 - z)^{2s + 1} \prod_{j = 1}^{\left[\frac{N - s}{2}\right]} \left[z^2 + 1 + 2z(1 - 2(\nu_j)^2)\right] \begin{cases} (1 + z), & N - s \mbox{ is odd} \\ 1, & N - s \mbox{ is even} \end{cases} \end{align} \] where $\left\{\nu_j\right\}_{j = 1}^{\left[\frac{N - s}{2}\right]}$ is the set of positive zeros of the polynomial $U_N^{(s)}(z)$ given $\displaystyle U_N(z) = \sum_{j = 0}^{\left[\frac{N}{2}\right]} (-1)^j \frac{(N - j)!}{j!(N - 2j)!}(2z)^{N - 2j}$ are the Chebyshev Polynomials of the Second Kind and $U_N^{(s)}(z)$ is the $s$th derivative of $U_N(z)$. As an application of the results, formulas were obtained expressing the derivatives of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind through linear combinations of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind: \[\frac{2^s}{s!}(1 - z^2)^sU_N^{(s)}(z) = (-1)^s \sum_{j = 0}^{s}(-1)^j{N-j \choose N-s} {N+s+1 \choose j} U_{N + s - 2j}(z). \]