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The ratio monotonicity of the Boros-Moll polynomials
Author(s):
William
Y. C.
Chen;
Ernest
X. W.
Xia.
Journal:
Math. Comp.
78
(2009),
2269-2282.
MSC (2000):
Primary 05A20, 33F10
Posted:
February 11, 2009
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Abstract:
In their study of a quartic integral, Boros and Moll discovered a special class of Jacobi polynomials, which we call the Boros-Moll polynomials. Kauers and Paule proved the conjecture of Moll that these polynomials are log-concave. In this paper, we show that the Boros-Moll polynomials possess the ratio monotone property which implies the log-concavity and the spiral property. We conclude with a conjecture which is stronger than Moll's conjecture on the  -log-concavity.
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Additional Information:
William
Y. C.
Chen
Affiliation:
Center for Combinatorics, LPMC-TJKLC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
Email:
chen@nankai.edu.cn
Ernest
X. W.
Xia
Affiliation:
Center for Combinatorics, LPMC-TJKLC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
Email:
xxw@cfc.nankai.edu.cn
DOI:
10.1090/S0025-5718-09-02223-6
PII:
S 0025-5718(09)02223-6
Keywords:
Ratio monotone property,
spiral property,
unimodality,
log-concavity,
Jacobi polynomials,
Boros-Moll polynomials.
Received by editor(s):
June 26, 2008
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
September 26, 2008
Posted:
February 11, 2009
Additional Notes:
This work was supported by the 973 Project, the PCSIRT Project of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Science Foundation of China.
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2009,
American Mathematical Society
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