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Tur\'an inequalities for the plane partition function

Number Theory 2022-09-13 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Heim, Neuhauser, and Tr\"oger recently established some inequalities for MacMahon's plane partition function PL(n)\mathrm{PL}(n) that generalize known results for Euler's partition function p(n)p(n). They also conjectured that PL(n)\mathrm{PL}(n) is log-concave for all n12.n\geq 12. We prove this conjecture. Moreover, for every d1d\geq 1, we prove their speculation that PL(n)\mathrm{PL}(n) satisfies the degree dd Tur\'an inequality for sufficiently large nn. The case where d=2d=2 is the case of log-concavity.

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@article{arxiv.2201.01352,
  title  = {Tur\'an inequalities for the plane partition function},
  author = {Ken Ono and Sudhir Pujahari and Larry Rolen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.01352},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

24 pages; Minor revisions based on comments of the referees, to appear in Advances in Mathematics

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