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Univalence of a Certain Quartic Function

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We give a short proof that the quartic polynomial \(f(z)=\frac 1 6 z^{4} + \frac 2 3 z^{3} + \frac 7 6 z^{2} + z\) is univalent, i.e., injective, in the open unit disc \(D=\{ z \in \mathbb {C} : \lvert z \rvert <1 \}\).

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Dillies, J. (2019). Univalence of a Certain Quartic Function. In: Abell, M., Iacob, E., Stokolos, A., Taylor, S., Tikhonov, S., Zhu, J. (eds) Topics in Classical and Modern Analysis. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12277-5_6

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