Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 ib Paper 4 14E ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
On , the perturbation has modulus . Thus Rouché's theorem gives three roots inside , counted with multiplicity.
For the quadrant information, compare instead with , whose roots are , , . Their pairwise distances are . On the circle ,The three unit discs are disjoint, and Rouché localization of polynomial roots gives one root in each, counted with multiplicity. The disc around lies strictly in the first quadrant in its interior; that around lies in the fourth quadrant; and that around lies in . Consequently there is exactly one root in each of those two right-hand quadrants, and exactly one root in the left half-plane. The same count also shows that each root is simple.