Gaussian inequality

DOI10.1216/RMJ.2024.54.1527MaRDI QIDQ7036433zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. Amdeberhan, David Callan

Publication date 28 January 2025

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/journals/rocky-mountain-journal-of-mathematics/volume-54/issue-6/GAUSSIAN-INEQUALITY/10.1216/rmj.2024.54.1527.full

zbMATH Keywords

Bergeron's inequalityGaussian polynomialspositivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

Review text

The authors prove some special cases of Bergeron's inequality involving two Gaussian polynomials \(\binom{b+c}{b}_q\) and \(\binom{a+d}{a}_q\) (or \(q\)-binomials). For example, they prove that the polynomial \(P(q)=\binom{3a+i}{a+i}_q-\binom{3a+2i}{a}_q\) has nonnegative coefficients.

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