The ULC conjecture for competing urn measures
The ULC conjecture for competing urn measures
Let balls be assigned independently to urns , and let indicate whether urn is occupied. The law of is a competing urn measure. Its rank sequence is , and ULC means that the binomially normalized rank sequence is log-concave with no internal zeros. Competing-urn conjecture. Every competing urn measure is ULC. The source notes that competing urn measures are known to be NA, but presents the stronger ULC assertion as conjectural.
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Jeff Kahn and Michael Neiman, “Negative correlation and log-concavity”, arXiv:0712.3507 (2009).
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