Brändén's real-rootedness conjecture for the second derived Boros-Moll polynomial

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For each positive integer mm, let Pm(a)=i=0mdi(m)aiP_m(a)=\sum_{i=0}^m d_i(m)a^i be the Boros-Moll polynomial and define

Rm(x)=i=0mdi(m)(i+2)!xi.R_m(x)=\sum_{i=0}^m \frac{d_i(m)}{(i+2)!}x^i.

Brändén's conjecture. The polynomial Rm(x)R_m(x) has only real zeros for every positive integer mm. The source states that the corresponding conjectures on derived polynomials imply 2-log-concavity and 3-log-concavity, and explicitly says that this conjecture remains open.

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William Y. C. Chen and Ernest X. W. Xia, “2-Log-concavity of the Boros-Moll Polynomials”, arXiv:1010.0416 (2010).

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