Mahler's isolating-column bound. For a leading coefficient c and points
α : Fin N → ℂ with ‖α i₀‖ ≤ ‖α i₁‖, the scaled Vandermonde determinant is
bounded by √N^{N-1} · √(∑ i²) · (‖c‖ · ∏ max(1,‖α j‖))^{N-1} · ‖α i₁ − α i₀‖.
The off-diagonal root-difference product equals ‖det V‖² in norm.
The discriminant in root-enumeration form: ‖disc f‖ = ‖lc‖^{2n-2} · ‖det V‖².
The exponent-independent assembly of Mahler's root-separation argument. For two distinct roots of a separable integral polynomial, the product of their distance with the Hadamard degree factor and the appropriate power of the Mahler measure is at least one. Executable precision specializations need only bound the final two factors.
Mahler separation for arbitrary nonzero integral polynomials. Repeated factors do not affect the set of roots: applying the separable theorem to the integral radical gives the same two roots, no larger degree, and no larger Mahler measure.