Abstract

The classical Lucas' theorem on critical points of complex-valued polynomials has been generalized (cf. [1]) to vector-valued polynomials defined on K-inner product spaces. In the present paper, we obtain a generalization of Lucas' theorem to vector-valued abstract polynomials defined on vector spaces, in general, which includes the above result of the author [1] in K-inner product spaces. Our main theorem also deduces a well-known result due to Marden on linear combinations of polynomial and its derivative. At the end, we discuss some examples in support of certain claims.