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Unimodality, log-concavity, real-rootedness and beyond

Combinatorics 2014-10-27 v1

Abstract

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 unimodality. After a brief introduction, we will complement these surveys with a survey over some new techniques that have been developed, as well as problems and conjectures that have been solved. This is a draft of a chapter to appear in Handbook of Enumerative Combinatorics, published by CRC Press.

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@article{arxiv.1410.6601,
  title  = {Unimodality, log-concavity, real-rootedness and beyond},
  author = {Petter Brändén},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6601},
  year   = {2014}
}

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39 pages

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