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Log-concavity of rows of Pascal type triangles

Combinatorics 2019-03-07 v2

Abstract

Menon's proof of the preservation of log-concavity of sequences under convolution becomes simpler when adapted to 2-sided infinite sequences. Under assumption of log-concavity of two 2-sided infinite sequences, the existence of the convolution is characterised by a convergence criterion. Preservation of log-concavity under convolution yields a method of establishing the log-concavity of rows of a large class of Pascal type triangles, including a weighted generalization of the Delannoy triangle. This method is also compared with known techniques of proving log-concavity.

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@article{arxiv.1608.04126,
  title  = {Log-concavity of rows of Pascal type triangles},
  author = {Stephan Foldes and Laszlo Major},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04126},
  year   = {2019}
}

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