On entire functions from the Laguerre-Pólya I class with non-monotonic second quotients of Taylor coefficients (Q2126889)

The authors consider entire functions \(f(z)=\sum _{j=0}^{\infty}a_jz^j\), \(a_j>0\), and the second quotients of their Taylor coefficients \(q_j(f):=a_{j-1}^2/a_ja_{j-2}\), \(j\geq 2\). They study entire functions of order zero with non-monotonic second quotients, in particular, entire functions for which the even-indexed quotients are all equal and the odd-indexed ones are all equal: \(q_{2j}=a>1\) and \(q_{2j+1}=b>1\), \(j\in \mathbb{N}\). They obtain necessary and sufficient conditions under which such functions belong to the Laguerre-Pólya class \(\mathcal{LP}-I\) which in this case means to have only real negative zeros. They illustrate the results by the partial theta function.