Sun's ratio monotonicity conjecture for the sequence S_n

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Let

Sn=∑k=0n(nk)2(2kk)(2k+1),n=0,1,2,….S_n=\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^2\binom{2k}{k}(2k+1),\qquad n=0,1,2,\ldots.

Sun's ratio monotonicity conjecture. The sequence {Sn+1/Sn}n≥3\{S_{n+1}/S_n\}_{n\geq 3} is strictly increasing to the limit 99, and the sequence {Sn+1n+1/Snn}n≥1\{\sqrt[n+1]{S_{n+1}}/\sqrt[n]{S_n}\}_{n\geq 1} is strictly decreasing to the limit 11. The paper's abstract states that it gives an affirmative answer to this conjecture, so the claim is solved in the source paper.

References

Primary source

Brian Y. Sun, “Some Ratio Monotonic Properties of a New Kind of Numbers introduced by Z.-W. Sun”, arXiv:1512.01010 (2015).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1512.01008.

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