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We introduce a notion of Lorentzian proper position in close analogy to proper position of stable polynomials. Using this notion, we give a new characterization of elementary quotients of M-convex function that parallels the Lorentzian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jidong Wang

We prove that projective spaces of Lorentzian and real stable polynomials are homeomorphic to closed Euclidean balls. This solves a conjecture of June Huh and the author. The proof utilizes and refines a connection between the symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Petter Brändén

We express the Segre class of a monomial scheme -- or, more generally, a scheme monomially supported on a set of divisors cutting out complete intersections -- in terms of an integral computed over an associated body in euclidean space. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Paolo Aluffi

In this paper we prove the strong $q$-log-convexity of the Eulerian polynomials of Coxeter groups using their exponential generating functions. Our proof is based on the theory of exponential Riordan arraya and a criterion for determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Lily Li Liu , Bao-Xuan Zhu

It is known that the space of convex polygons in the Euclidean plane with fixed normals, up to homotheties and translations, endowed with the area form, is isometric to a hyperbolic polyhedron. In this note we show a class of convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-05 François Fillastre

The Rota--Heron--Welsh conjecture (now a theorem of Adiprasito, Huh, and the author) asserts the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids. We give an exposition of the Lorentzian polynomial proof following the work of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Eric Katz

Taking a compact K\"{a}hler manifold as playground, we explore the powerfulness of Hodge index theorem. A main object is the Lorentzian classes on a compact K\"{a}hler manifold, behind which the characterization via Lorentzian polynomials…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Jiajun Hu , Jian Xiao

Horizontal and vertical generating functions and recursion relations have been investigated by Comtet for triangular double sequences. In this paper we investigate the horizontal and vertical log-concavity of triangular sequences assigned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Bernhard Heim , Markus Neuhauser

We study algebraic curves that are envelopes of families of polygons supported on the unit circle T. We address, in particular, a characterization of such curves of minimal class and show that all realizations of these curves are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Markus Hunziker , Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein , Taylor Poe , Brian Simanek

Hyperbolic polynomials elegantly encode a rich class of convex cones that includes polyhedral and spectrahedral cones. Hyperbolic polynomials are closed under taking polars and the corresponding cones, the derivative cones, yield…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Raman Sanyal

Polynomial sequence ${P_m}_{m\geq0}$ is $q$-logarithmically concave if $P_{m}^2-P_{m+1}P_{m-1}$ is a polynomial with nonnegative coefficients for any $m\geq{1}$. We introduce an analogue of this notion for formal power series whose…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-11-15 S. I. Kalmykov , D. B. Karp

Let S be a compact surface of genus >1, and g be a metric on S of constant curvature K\in\{-1,0,1\} with conical singularities of negative singular curvature. When K=1 we add the condition that the lengths of the contractible geodesics are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-27 François Fillastre

In this paper we discuss a couple of observations related to polynomial convexity. More precisely, (i) We observe that the union of finitely many disjoint closed balls with centres in $\cup_{\theta\in[0,\pi/2]}e^{i\theta}V$ is polynomially…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Sushil Gorai

On a finite-dimensional real vector space, we give a microlocal characterization of (derived) piecewise linear sheaves (PL sheaves) and prove that the triangulated category of such sheaves is generated by sheaves associated with convex…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Masaki Kashiwara , Pierre Schapira

We study the multivariate independence polynomials of graphs and the log-concavity of the coefficients of their univariate restrictions. Let $R_{W_4}$ be the operator defined on simple and undirected graphs which replaces each edge with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Amire Bendjeddou , Leonard Hardiman

A multivariate polynomial $p(x)=p(x_1,...,x_n)$ is sos-convex if its Hessian $H(x)$ can be factored as $H(x)= M^T(x) M(x)$ with a possibly nonsquare polynomial matrix $M(x)$. It is easy to see that sos-convexity is a sufficient condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Pablo A. Parrilo

We consider polynomials on the intersection of the closed positive orthant with the height-$1$ level hypersurface of certain polynomials with positive coefficients. We show that any polynomial strictly positive on such a semi-algebraic set…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Colin Tan , Wing-Keung To

We investigate structural properties of the cone of roots of relative Steiner polynomials of convex bodies. We prove that they are closed, monotonous with respect to the dimension, and that they cover the whole upper half-plane, except the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-21 Martin Henk , María A. Hernández Cifre , Eugenia Saorín

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

Hyperplanes and hyperplane complements in the Segre product of partial linear spaces are investigated . The parallelism of such a complement is characterized in terms of the point-line incidence. Assumptions, under which the automorphisms…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-31 K. Petelczyc , M. Żynel