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Two-log-convexity of the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence

Combinatorics 2016-02-17 v1

Abstract

The Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence {Pn}n0\{P_n\}_{n\geq 0} arises in a series expansion of the complete elliptic integral of the first kind. It has been proved that the sequence is log-balanced. In the paper, by exploring a criterion due to Chen and Xia for testing 2-log-convexity of a sequence satisfying three-term recurrence relation, we prove that the new sequence {Pn2Pn1Pn+1}n1\{P^2_n-P_{n-1}P_{n+1}\}_{n\geq 1} are strictly log-convex and hence the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence is strictly 2-log-convex.

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@article{arxiv.1602.04909,
  title  = {Two-log-convexity of the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence},
  author = {Brian Yi Sun and Baoyindureng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04909},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages in Journal of Inequality and Applications,2015