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On a conjecture of Chen-Guo-Wang

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-06-30 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Towards confirming Sun's conjecture on the strict log-concavity of combinatorial sequence involving the nthth Bernoulli number, Chen, Guo and Wang proposed a conjecture about the log-concavity of the function θ(x)=2ζ(x)Γ(x+1)x\theta(x)=\sqrt[x]{2\zeta(x)\Gamma(x+1)} for x(6,)x\in (6,\infty), where ζ(x)\zeta(x) is the Riemann zeta function and Γ(x)\Gamma(x) is the Gamma function. In this paper, we first prove this conjecture along the spirit of Zhu's previous work. Second, we extend Chen et al.'s conjecture in the sense of almost infinite log-monotonicity of combinatorial sequences, which was also introduced by Chen et al. Furthermore, by using an analogue criterion to the one of Chen, Guo and Wang, we deduce the almost infinite log-monotonicity of the sequences 1B2nn\frac{1}{\sqrt[n]{|B_{2n}|}}, TnT_n and 1Tnn\frac{1}{\sqrt[n]{T_n}}, where B2nB_{2n} and TnT_{n} are the 2n2nth Bernoulli number and the nnth tangent number, respectively. These results can be seen as extensions of some solved conjectures of Sun.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01793,
  title  = {On a conjecture of Chen-Guo-Wang},
  author = {Bo Ning and Yu Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01793},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, extended version