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Some analytical properties of the matrix related to q-coloured Delannoy numbers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2022
Abstract
The $q$-coloured Delannoy numbers $D_{n,k}(q)$
count the number of lattice paths from $(0,\,0)$
to $(n,\,k)$
using steps $(0,\,1)$
, $(1,\,0)$
and $(1,\,1)$
, among which the $(1,\,1)$
steps are coloured with $q$
colours. The focus of this paper is to study some analytical properties of the polynomial matrix $D(q)=[d_{n,k}(q)]_{n,k\geq 0}=[D_{n-k,k}(q)]_{n,k\geq 0}$
, such as the strong $q$
-log-concavity of polynomial sequences located in a ray or a transversal line of $D(q)$
and the $q$
-total positivity of $D(q)$
. We show that the zeros of all row sums $R_n(q)=\sum \nolimits _{k=0}^{n}d_{n,k}(q)$
are in $(-\infty,\, -1)$
and are dense in the corresponding semi-closed interval. We also prove that the zeros of all antidiagonal sums $A_n(q)=\sum \nolimits _{k=0}^{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor }d_{n-k,k}(q)$
are in the interval $(-\infty,\, -1]$
and are dense there.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , August 2022 , pp. 847 - 860
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on Behalf of The Edinburgh Mathematical Society
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