Proof of a conjecture of Bourn and Willenbring concerning a family of palindromic polynomials
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Publication:6442764
arXiv2307.02652MaRDI QIDQ6442764FDOQ6442764
Authors: Rebecca Bourn, William Q. Erickson 
Publication date: 5 July 2023
Abstract: We prove a conjecture of Bourn and Willenbring (2020) regarding the palindromicity and unimodality of certain polynomials . These polynomials arise as the numerators of generating functions in the context of the one-dimensional earth mover's distance (EMD). Our proof reveals a connection to recent work by Defant et al. (2023) on the Wiener index of minuscule lattices, which we reinterpret combinatorially to obtain explicit formulas for the coefficients of and for the expected value of the EMD.
Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Graphical indices (Wiener index, Zagreb index, Randi? index, etc.) (05C09) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Recurrences (11B37)
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