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- From: Michael.Lowry@launchpad.unc.edu (Michael Lowry)
- Subject: Complex Inequality?
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:42:04 GMT
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- I'm trying to show the conditions for which the modulus (absolute value)
- of the roots of 1-bx-c^2=0 are greater than one. The roots are:
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- ( b+Sqrt(b^2+4a) )/(-2a) and ( b-Sqrt(b^2+4a) )/(-2a)
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- from the quadratic formula. In other words I must find the conditions
- on b and a for which the roots lie outside the unit circle in the
- complex plane. I'm not having much success. Can anyone help?
- I do have the answer from a reference which does not do the math:
- a + b < 1 ; a - b < 1 ; -1 < a < 1
- This problem comes from the stationarity condition for a second order
- autoregressive model for a time series.
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- Thanks for any help,
- Michael Lowry
- Michael.Lowry@bbs.oit.unc.edu
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