Sun's ratio monotonicity conjecture for the sequence S_n

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}n3\{S_{n+1}/S_n\}_{n\geq 3} is strictly increasing to the limit 99, and the sequence {Sn+1n+1/Snn}n1\{\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.

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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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