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Ratio Monotonicity of Polynomials Derived from Nondecreasing Sequences

Combinatorics 2010-07-29 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

The ratio monotonicity of a polynomial is a stronger property than log-concavity. Let P(x) be a polynomial with nonnegative and nondecreasing coefficients. We prove the ratio monotone property of P(x+1), which leads to the log-concavity of P(x+c) for any c1c\geq 1 due to Llamas and Mart\'{\i}nez-Bernal. As a consequence, we obtain the ratio monotonicity of the Boros-Moll polynomials obtained by Chen and Xia without resorting to the recurrence relations of the coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.1007.5017,
  title  = {Ratio Monotonicity of Polynomials Derived from Nondecreasing Sequences},
  author = {William Y. C. Chen and Arthur L. B. Yang and Elaine L. F. Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.5017},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages

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