The ULC conjecture for competing urn measures

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Let mm balls be assigned independently to urns 1,…,n1,\ldots,n, and let XiX_i indicate whether urn ii is occupied. The law of (X1,…,Xn)(X_1,\ldots,X_n) is a competing urn measure. Its rank sequence is (μ(∣η∣=i))i=0n(\mu(|\eta|=i))_{i=0}^n, 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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