Closely following recent ideas of J. Borcea, we discuss various modifications and relaxations of Sendov's conjecture about the location of critical points of a polynomial with complex coefficients. The resulting open problems are formulated in terms of matrix theory, mathematical statistics or potential theory. Quite a few links between classical works in the geometry of polynomials and recent advances in the location of spectra of small rank perturbations of structured matrices are established. A couple of simple examples provide natural and sometimes sharp bounds for the proposed conjectures.
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Khavinson, D., Pereira, R., Putinar, M., Saff, E. B., & Shimorin, S. (2011). Borcea’s Variance Conjectures on the Critical Points of Polynomials. In Notions of Positivity and the Geometry of Polynomials (pp. 283–309). Springer Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0142-3_16
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