Proofs of some conjectures on monotonicity of number-theoretic and combinatorial sequences

DOI10.1007/S11425-014-4851-XMaRDI QIDQ487517zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yi Wang, Bao-Xuan Zhu

Publication date 22 January 2015

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5595

zbMATH Keywords

monotonicitylog-concavitylog-convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Combinatorial inequalities (05A20)

Abstract: We develop techniques to deal with monotonicity of sequences z_{n+1}/z_n and sqrt[n]{z_n}. A series of conjectures of Zhi-Wei Sun and of Amdeberhan et al. are verified in certain unified approaches.

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