Raşa's logarithmic-convexity conjecture for squared Baskakov functions

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For ninNn in\mathbb{N}, c>0c>0, and

ψn,c(x)=∑k=0∞(pn,k[c](x))2,\psi_{n,c}(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\left(p_{n,k}^{[c]}(x)\right)^2,

where

pn,k[c](x)=(−n/ck)(−cx)k(1+cx)−n/c−k,x≥0,p_{n,k}^{[c]}(x)=\binom{-n/c}{k}\left(-cx\right)^k\left(1+cx\right)^{-n/c-k},\qquad x\geq 0,

Raşa's conjecture. The function ψn,c\psi_{n,c} is logarithmically convex. The paper proves complete monotonicity of ψn,c\psi_{n,c}, which implies logarithmic convexity; thus this conjecture is resolved.

References

Primary source

Ulrich Abel, Wolfgang Gawronski and Thorsten Neuschel, “Complete Monotonicity and Zeros of Sums of Squared Baskakov Functions”, arXiv:1411.7945 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1402.6539.

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