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Higher Tur\'{a}n inequalities for the plane partition function

Number Theory 2022-10-18 v1

Abstract

Here we study the roots of the doubly infinite family of Jensen polynomials JPLd,n(x)J_{\mathrm{PL}}^{d,n}(x) associated to MacMahon's plane partition function PL(n)\mathrm{PL}(n). Recently, Ono, Pujahari, and Rolen proved that PL(n)\mathrm{PL}(n) is log-concave for all n12n\geq 12, which is equivalent to the polynomials JPL2,n(x)J_{\mathrm{PL}}^{2,n}(x) having real roots. Moreover, they proved, for each d2d\geq 2, that the JPLd,n(x)J_{\mathrm{PL}}^{d,n}(x) have all real roots for sufficiently large nn. Here we make their result effective. Namely, if NPL(d)N_{\mathrm{PL}}(d) is the minimal integer such that JPLd,n(x)J_{\mathrm{PL}}^{d,n}(x) has all real roots for all nNPL(d)n\geq N_{\mathrm{PL}}(d), then we show that NPL(d)279928d(d1)(6d3(22.2)3(d1)2)2deΓ(2d2)(2π)2d+2.N_{\mathrm{PL}}(d)\leq 279928\cdot d(d-1)\cdot \left(6 d^3\cdot (22.2)^{\frac{3(d-1)}{2}}\right)^{2d} e^{\frac{\Gamma(2d^2)}{(2\pi)^{2d+2}}} . Moreover, using the ideas that led to the above inequality, we explicitly prove that NPL(3)=26,NPL(4)=46,NPL(5)=73,NPL(6)=102N_{\mathrm{PL}}(3)=26, N_{\mathrm{PL}}(4)=46, N_{\mathrm{PL}}(5)=73, N_{\mathrm{PL}}(6)=102 and NPL(7)=136N_{\mathrm{PL}}(7)=136.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.08617,
  title  = {Higher Tur\'{a}n inequalities for the plane partition function},
  author = {Badri Vishal Pandey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08617},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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