J. Aust. Math. Soc.  75 (2003), 409-411
Smale's mean value conjecture for odd polynomials

T. W. Ng
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  Department of Mathematics
  The University of Hong Kong
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  ntw@maths.hku.hk


Abstract
In this paper, we shall show that the constant in Smale's mean value theorem can be reduced to two for a large class of polynomials which includes the odd polynomials with nonzero linear term.
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