On the modes of polynomials derived from nondecreasing sequences

Abstract: Wang and Yeh proved that if

P (x)

is a polynomial with nonnegative and nondecreasing coefficients, then

P (x + d)

is unimodal for any

d > 0

. A mode of a unimodal polynomial

f (x) = a_{0} + a_{1} x + c d o t s + a_{m} x^{m}

is an index

k

such that

a_{k}

is the maximum coefficient. Suppose that

M_{*} (P, d)

is the smallest mode of

P (x + d)

, and

M^{*} (P, d)

the greatest mode. Wang and Yeh conjectured that if

d_{2} > d_{1} > 0

, then

M_{*} (P, d_{1}) g e q M_{*} (P, d_{2})

and

M^{*} (P, d_{1}) g e q M^{*} (P, d_{2})

. We give a proof of this conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4927

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