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We expand upon the notion of equivariant log concavity, and make equivariant log concavity conjectures for Orlik--Solomon algebras of matroids, Cordovil algebras of oriented matroids, and Orlik--Terao algebras of hyperplane arrangements. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jacob P. Matherne , Dane Miyata , Nicholas Proudfoot , Eric Ramos

Sequence transformations are important tools for the convergence acceleration of slowly convergent scalar sequences or series and for the summation of divergent series. Transformations that depend not only on the sequence elements or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Herbert H. H. Homeier

The binomial coefficients and Catalan triangle numbers appear as weight multiplicities of the finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras and affine Kac--Moody algebras. We prove that any binomial coefficient can be written as weighted sums…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Kyu-Hwan Lee , Se-jin Oh

By using combinatorics, we give a new proof for the recurrence relations of the characteristic polynomial coefficients, and then we obtain an explicit expression for the generic term of the coefficient sequence, which yields the trace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hong-Hao Zhang , Wen-Bin Yan , Xue-Song Li

The classical Fibonacci sequence is known to exhibit many fascinating properties. In this paper, we explore the Fibonacci sequence and integer sequences generated by second order linear recurrence relations with positive integer…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Arulalan Rajan , R. Vittal Rao , Ashok Rao , H. S. Jamadagni

We propose a log-concavity conjecture for BPS invariants arising in the enumerative geometry of planar curve singularities, identified with the local Euler obstructions of Severi strata in their versal deformations. We further extend this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Tao Su , Baiting Xie , Chenglong Yu

Convolution sums are introduced and special instances of the cyclic convolution on finite sets is examined in more detail. The distributions that emerge are multidimensional generalizations of the Catalan and Narayana numbers. This work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Gregory M Constantine , Rodica R Constantine

The prevalent approach to sequence to sequence learning maps an input sequence to a variable length output sequence via recurrent neural networks. We introduce an architecture based entirely on convolutional neural networks. Compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Jonas Gehring , Michael Auli , David Grangier , Denis Yarats , Yann N. Dauphin

We show that normalized Schur polynomials are strongly log-concave. As a consequence, we obtain Okounkov's log-concavity conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients in the special case of Kostka numbers.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-27 June Huh , Jacob P. Matherne , Karola Mészáros , Avery St. Dizier

An integer sequence that is defined by initial values and a linear recurrence with constant integer coefficients, can be represented by the difference of two arithmetic terms containing exponentiation. All constants occuring in the term are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Mihai Prunescu

Admissible rules are shown to be conservatively preserved by the meet-combination of a wide class of logics. A basis is obtained for the resulting logic from bases given for the component logics. Structural completeness and decidability of…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Joao Rasga , Cristina Sernadas , Amilcar Sernadas

Can you decide if there is a coincidence in the numbers counting two different combinatorial objects? For example, can you decide if two regions in $\mathbb{R}^3$ have the same number of domino tilings? There are two versions of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Swee Hong Chan , Igor Pak

We prove log-concavity of the lengths of the top rows of Young diagrams under Poissonized Plancherel measure. This is the first known positive result towards a 2008 conjecture of Chen that the length of the top row of a Young diagram under…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Jnaneshwar Baslingker , Manjunath Krishnapur , Mokshay Madiman

We study the set $\mathcal{L}_{F}$ of all $F$-vector spaces $L(P)$ where $P$ is monic and splits over $F$ and $L(Q)$ denotes the set of linear recurrence sequences over $F$ with characteristic polynomial $Q$. We show that $\mathcal{L}_{F}$…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Mohammed Mouçouf

In these notes we address the study of the log-concave operator acting on Lucas Sequences of first kind. We will find for which initial values a generic Lucas sequence is log-concave, and using this we show when the same sequence is…

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In this work we continue to study the properties of polynomials of binomial type and their canonical continuations to the complex index by exploring the properties of transformation T:=1/dlog which acts on formal power series $f(x)$ of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Danil Krotkov

We give some results and conjectures about recurrence relations for certain sequences of binomial sums.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Johann Cigler

From an identity connecting a combinatorial sum and Legendre polynomials, we derive closed forms for a number of combinatorial sums. Some of them are obtained via results about the integrals of functions associated with Legendre…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Michel Bataille , Robert Frontczak

This is a survey on recent developments on unimodality, log-concavity and real-rootedness in combinatorics. Stanley and Brenti have written extensive surveys of various techniques that can be used to prove real-rootedness, log-concavity or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Petter Brändén

We explore a physical model of ordered sums of integers as trains of rods. The trains for a fixed, possibly infinite, set of rod lengths naturally correspond to nodes in a tree; relations among finite linear recursions encoded in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Ethan D. Bolker , Debra K. Borkovitz , Katelyn Lee