Log-concavity of Whitney numbers of Dowling lattices

DOI10.1006/AAMA.1998.0621MaRDI QIDQ1291061zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Moussa Benoumhani

Publication date 10 August 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/00501a70df6c50e82e33a53963e3241dce4d1f07

zbMATH Keywords

Dowling latticegenerating functiongeometric latticelog-concaveStirling numbers of the second kindWhitney numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Semimodular lattices, geometric lattices (06C10)

Review text

This paper shows that the generating polynomial of Whitney numbers of the Dowling lattices has only real roots. This gives a new proof (through a result of Newton) that these Whitney numbers form strictly log-concave sequences.

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