The 2-log-convexity of the Apéry numbers

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10575-0MaRDI QIDQ3082308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Ernest X. W. Xia

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0795

zbMATH Keywords

2-log-convexityApéry numberinfinite log-convexitylog-convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial inequalities (05A20) Recurrences (11B37) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

Abstract: We present an approach to proving the 2-log-convexity of sequences satisfying three-term recurrence relations. We show that the Apery numbers, the Cohen-Rhin numbers, the Motzkin numbers, the Fine numbers, the Franel numbers of order 3 and 4 and the large Schroder numbers are all 2-log-convex. Numerical evidence suggests that all these sequences are k-log-convex for any $kgeq1$ possibly except for a constant number of terms at the beginning.

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