Inside Roots of Determinant of Polynomial Matrix

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Let ${\bf A}(x)$ be an $(n-1) \times n$ polynomial matrix and ${\bf b}(x)$ be a $1 \times n$ polynomial vector. Suppose that

$$ \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf b}(x) \end{bmatrix}=0 $$

does not have a root inside the unit circle.

What condition must a $1 \times n$ constant vector ${\bf c}$ satisfy in order for

$$ \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf b}(x) - {\bf c} \end{bmatrix}=0 $$ to have a root inside the unit circle?


I guess it is useful to use the fact that

$$ \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf b}(x) - {\bf c} \end{bmatrix} = \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf b}(x) \end{bmatrix}-\det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf c} \end{bmatrix},$$

which means, in particular, that ${\bf c}={\bf b}(x_0)$ for some $x_0$ inside the unit circle is a sufficient condition.

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A necessary and sufficient condition is that there exists a vector $\bf v$ and some $x_0$ inside the unit circle such that ${\bf c} = {\bf b}(x_0)+{\bf vA}(x_0)$.

If this is the case then

$$ \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x_0) \\ {\bf b}(x_0) - {\bf c} \end{bmatrix} = \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x_0) \\ {\bf vA}(x_0) \end{bmatrix}=0.$$

Since

$$ \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf b}(x) \end{bmatrix}=0 $$

does not have a root inside the unit circle, it follows that ${\bf A}(x)$ has full row rank for all $x$ inside the unit circle. Therefore, if the condition is not satisfied ${\bf b}(x) - {\bf c}$ will not be linearly dependent with the rows of ${\bf A}(x)$ for all $x$ in the unit circle, so that

$$ \det\begin{bmatrix} {\bf A}(x) \\ {\bf b}(x)-{\bf c} \end{bmatrix}= 0 $$

does not have an inside root.