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Immanant Positivity for Catalan-Stieltjes Matrices

Combinatorics 2021-06-25 v1

Abstract

In this paper we give some sufficient conditions for the nonnegativity of immanants of square submatrices of Catalan-Stieltjes matrices and their corresponding Hankel matrices. To obtain these sufficient conditions, we construct new planar networks with a recursive nature for Catalan-Stieltjes matrices. As applications, we provide a unified way to produce inequalities for many combinatorial polynomials, such as the Eulerian polynomials, Schr\"{o}der polynomials and Narayana polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.2106.12816,
  title  = {Immanant Positivity for Catalan-Stieltjes Matrices},
  author = {Ethan Y. H. Li and Grace M. X. Li and Arthur L. B. Yang and Candice X. T. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12816},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 page, 4 figures

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