“…Indeed, some works have shown that, for some classes of time-delay systems, a real root of maximal multiplicity is necessarily the rightmost root, a property known as multiplicity-induced-dominancy (MID). This link between maximal multiplicity and dominance has been suggested in Pinney (1958) after the study of some simple, low-order cases, but without any attempt to address the general case and, up to the authors' knowledge, very few works have considered this question in more details until recently in works such as Boussaada et al (2016Boussaada et al ( , 2020Boussaada et al ( , 2018; Ramírez et al (2016); Mazanti et al (2020Mazanti et al ( , 2021a; Benarab et al (2020). These works consider only time-delay equations with a single delay and the MID property was shown to hold, for instance, for retarded equations of order 1 in Boussaada et al (2016), proving dominance by introducing a factorization of ∆ in terms of an integral expression when it admits a root of maximal multiplicity 2; for retarded equations of order 2 with a delayed term of order zero in Boussaada et al (2018), using also the same factorization technique; or for retarded equations of order 2 with a delayed term of order 1 in Boussaada et al (2020), using Cauchy's argument principle to prove dominance of the multiple root.…”