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Proof of a conjecture on unimodality

Combinatorics 2008-09-10 v1

Abstract

Let P(x)P(x) be a polynomial of degree mm, with nonnegative and non-decreasing coefficients. We settle the conjecture that for any positive real number dd, the coefficients of P(x+d)P(x+d) form a unimodal sequence, of which the special case dd being a positive integer has already been asserted in a previous work. Further, we explore the location of modes of P(x+d)P(x+d) and present some sufficient conditions on mm and dd for which P(x+d)P(x+d) has the unique mode mdd+1\lceil{m-d\over d+1}\rceil.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1586,
  title  = {Proof of a conjecture on unimodality},
  author = {Yi Wang and Yeong-Nan Yeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1586},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages

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