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Bi-log-concavity of probability measures is a univariate extension of the notion of log-concavity that has been recently proposed in a statistical literature. Among other things, it has the nice property from a modelisation perspective to…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Adrien Saumard

In their study of a quartic integral, Boros and Moll introduced a special case of Jacobi polynomials, which are now known as the Boros-Moll polynomials. In this paper, we study a symmetric decomposition of Boros-Moll polynomials. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Guo-Niu Han , Shi-Mei Ma , Yeong-Nan Yeh

We show that the sequence of moments of order less than 1 of averages of i.i.d. positive random variables is log-concave. For moments of order at least 1, we conjecture that the sequence is log-convex and show that this holds eventually for…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Philip Lamkin , Tomasz Tkocz

In this paper, we prove the $q$-log-convexity of Domb's polynomials, which was conjectured by Sun in the study of Ramanujan-Sato type series for powers of $\pi$. As a result, we obtain the log-convexity of Domb's numbers. Our proof is based…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Donna Q. J. Dou , Anne X. Y. Ren

We prove two conjectures of Br\"{a}nd\'{e}n on the real-rootedness of polynomials $Q_n(x)$ and $R_n(x)$ which are related to the Boros-Moll polynomials $P_n(x)$. In fact, we show that both $Q_n(x)$ and $R_n(x)$ form Sturm sequences. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-03 William Y. C. Chen , Donna Q. J. Dou , Arthur L. B. Yang

We disprove a recent conjecture regarding discrete distributions and their generating polynomials stating that strong log-concavity implies log-submodularity.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Alkis Gotovos

Let $m$ and $k \geq 2$ be positive integers. We show that polynomial $P = (1+x)^m(1+x^k)$ is strongly unimodal (frequently known as {\it log concave\/}) if and only if $m \geq k^2 -3$; this is also the criterion for $P$ to be merely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 David Handelman

This paper presents the log-concavity of the $m$-gonal figurate number sequences. The author gives and proves the recurrence formula for $m$-gonal figurate number sequences and its corresponding quotient sequences which are found to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Fekadu Tolessa Gedefa

Let $e_{n}^k$ be the entries in the classical Euler's difference table. We consider the array $d_{n}^{k}=e_n^k/k!$ for $0\leq k \leq n$, where $d_n^k$ can be interpreted as the number of k-fixed-points-permutations of [n]. We show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-17 William Y. C. Chen , Cindy C. Y. Gu , Kevin J. Ma , Larry X. W. Wang

We prove that in a large collection of naturally defined sets of permutations of fixed length, the numbers of permutations at Ulam distance k from the identity form a log-concave sequence in k.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Miklós Bóna , Marie-Louise Bruner

We will prove a reverse Rogers-Shephard inequality for log-concave functions. In some particular cases, the method used for general log-concave functions can be slightly improved, allowing us to prove volume estimates for polars of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-18 David Alonso-Gutiérrez

We review and formulate results concerning log-concavity and strong-log-concavity in both discrete and continuous settings. We show how preservation of log-concavity and strongly log-concavity on $\mathbb{R}$ under convolution follows from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Adrien Saumard , Jon A. Wellner

We prove that the exponent of the entropy of one dimensional projections of a log-concave random vector defines a 1/5-seminorm. We make two conjectures concerning reverse entropy power inequalities in the log-concave setting and discuss…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Keith Ball , Piotr Nayar , Tomasz Tkocz

We prove a nearly polynomial inverse theorem for the Gowers $U^d$ norm, over finite fields of non-small characteristic, for polynomials of degree $d+1$. The case of degree $d$ was very recently settled by Mili\'{c}evi\'{c} and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Tomer Milo , Guy Moshkovitz

We study log-concavity properties of real sequences $(a_n)_{n \ge 0}$ satisfying a $d$-th order linear recurrence whose coefficients are linear functions of $n$; the so-called P-recursive (or holonomic) sequences. Writing the recurrence in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Piero Giacomelli

The Grothendieck classes of melonic graphs satisfy a recursive relation and may be written as polynomials in the class of the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{0,4}$ with nonnegative integer coefficients, conjectured to be log-concave. In this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Stephanie Chen

We prove that the log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality (log-BMI) for the Lebesque measure in dimension $n$ would imply the log-BMI and, therefore, the B-conjecture for any log-concave density in dimension $n$. As a consequence, we prove the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Christos Saroglou

Firstly, we propose our conjectured Reverse-log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality (RLBM). Secondly, we show that the (RLBM) conjecture is equivalent to the log-Brunn-Minkowski (LBM) conjecture proposed by B\"or\"oczky-Lutwak-Yang-Zhang. We name…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Dongmeng Xi

Let $U_{n,d}$ be the uniform matroid of rank $d$ on $n$ elements. Denote by $g_{U_{n,d}}(t)$ the Speyer's $g$-polynomial of $U_{n,d}$. The Tur\'{a}n inequality and higher order Tur\'{a}n inequality are related to the Laguerre-P\'{o}lya…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-11 James J. Y. Zhao

This paper is devoted to the study of the log-convexity of combinatorial sequences. We show that the log-convexity is preserved under componentwise sum, under binomial convolution, and by the linear transformations given by the matrices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-17 Li Liu , Yi Wang