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The extended reverse ultra log-concavity of transposed Boros-Moll sequences

Combinatorics 2024-06-21 v1

Abstract

The Boros-Moll sequences {d(m)}=0m\{d_\ell(m)\}_{\ell=0}^m arise in the study of evaluation of a quartic integral. After the infinite log-concavity conjecture of the sequence {d(m)}=0m\{d_\ell(m)\}_{\ell=0}^m was proposed by Boros and Moll, a lot of interesting inequalities on d(m)d_\ell(m) were obtained, although the conjecture is still open. Since d(m)d_\ell(m) has two parameters, it is natural to consider the properties for the sequences {d(m)}m\{d_\ell(m)\}_{m\ge \ell}, which are called the \emph{transposed Boros-Moll sequences} here. In this paper, we mainly prove the extended reverse ultra log-concavity of the transposed Boros-Moll sequences {d(m)}m\{d_\ell(m)\}_{m\ge \ell}, and hence give an upper bound for the ratio d2(m)/(d(m1)d(m+1)){d_\ell^2(m)}/{(d_\ell(m-1)d_\ell(m+1))}. A lower bound for this ratio is also established which implies a result stronger than the log-concavity of the sequences {d(m)}m\{d_\ell(m)\}_{m\ge \ell}. As a consequence, we also show that the transposed Boros-Moll sequences possess a stronger log-concave property than the Boros-Moll sequences do. At last, we propose some conjectures on the Boros-Moll sequences and their transposes.

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@article{arxiv.2406.13790,
  title  = {The extended reverse ultra log-concavity of transposed Boros-Moll sequences},
  author = {James J. Y. Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13790},
  year   = {2024}
}

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