On the log-concavity of the sequence for some combinatorial sequences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2018
Abstract
Recently, Sun posed a series of conjectures on the log-concavity of the sequence , where is a familiar combinatorial sequence of positive integers. Luca and Stănică, Hou et al. and Chen et al. proved some of Sun's conjectures. In this paper, we present a criterion on the log-concavity of the sequence . The criterion is based on the existence of a function f(n) that satisfies some inequalities involving terms related to the sequence . Furthermore, we present a heuristic approach to compute f(n). As applications, we prove that, for the Zagier numbers , the sequences are strictly log-concave, which confirms a conjecture of Sun. We also prove the log-concavity of the sequence of Cohen–Rhin numbers.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 148 , Issue 4 , August 2018 , pp. 881 - 892
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