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The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the distribution, simplicity and monotonicity of the roots of a class of trinomial equations that appears in certain financial mathematics problems. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to decompose some classes of trinomial equations into polynomials generated by a three term recurrence relation.
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The first author is supported by grant from FAPESP (#2016/02700-8) São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil.
The second author is supported by grant from FAPESP (#2015/23752-3) São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil.
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Botta, V., da Silva, J.V. On the behavior of roots of trinomial equations. Acta Math. Hungar. 157, 54–62 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-018-0896-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-018-0896-6