Infinitely log-monotonic combinatorial sequences

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2013.08.003MaRDI QIDQ395243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Jeremy J. F. Guo, Larry X. W. Wang

Publication date 29 January 2014

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5160

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann zeta functionlogarithmically completely monotonicfunctioninfinitely log-monotonic sequenceration log-concave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Combinatorial inequalities (05A20) Zeta and (L)-functions: analytic theory (11M99)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of infinitely log-monotonic sequences. By establishing a connection between completely monotonic functions and infinitely log-monotonic sequences, we show that the sequences of the Bernoulli numbers, the Catalan numbers and the central binomial coefficients are infinitely log-monotonic. In particular, if a sequence ${a_n}_{ngeq0}$ is log-monotonic of order two, then it is ratio log-concave in the sense that the sequence ${a_{n+1}/a_n}_{ngeq0}$ is log-concave. Furthermore, we prove that if a sequence ${a_n}_{ngeqk}$ is ratio log-concave, then the sequence ${sqrt[n]a_n}_{ngeqk}$ is strictly log-concave subject to a certain initial condition. As consequences, we show that the sequences of the derangement numbers, the Motzkin numbers, the Fine numbers, the central Delannoy numbers, the numbers of tree-like polyhexes and the Domb numbers are ratio log-concave. For the case of the Domb numbers $D_n$, we confirm a conjecture of Sun on the log-concavity of the sequence ${sqrt[n]D_n}_{ngeq1}$.

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