Eventual unimodality of the coefficients of the q-Catalan numbers
Let denote the -Catalan numbers and let be their coefficients. Eventual unimodality conjecture. The sequence
is unimodal when is sufficiently large. The limiting normal distribution suggests that the coefficients become almost unimodal after omitting the first and last terms; the claim is supported by computation showing that is unimodal for , but remains unproved.
References
Primary source
William Y. C. Chen, Carol J. Wang and Larry X. W. Wang, “The Limiting Distribution of the Coefficients of the q-Catalan Numbers”, arXiv:0708.2574 (2007).
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