- CARMA COLLOQUIUM
- Speaker: Armin Staub, Tulane University
- Title: On infinite logconcavity
- Location: Room V129, Mathematics Building (Callaghan Campus) The University of Newcastle
- Time and Date: 4:00 pm, Thu, 14th Oct 2010
- Abstract:
The log-concavity of a sequence is a much studied concept in combinatorics with surprising links to many other mathematical fields. In this talk we discuss the stronger but much less studied notion of m-fold log-concavity which has recently recieved some attention after Boros and Moll conjectured that a "remarkable" sequence encountered in the integration of an inverse cubic is infinitely log-concave. In particular, we report on a recent result of Branden which implies infinite log-concavity of the binomial coefficients and other new developments. Examples and conjectures are promised. A PDF of the talk is available here.
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