The conjecture extending the sign pattern of h1h_1 to every hnh_n

Let dd be the integer parameter in the transfer-operator construction, let q>0q>0, and let hnh_n denote the functions introduced in the paper. For k=1,,dk=1,\ldots,d, define

Qk={(2(k1),2k)if k=1,,d1,(2(d1),)if k=d.Q_k=\begin{cases} \big(2(k-1),2k\big) & \text{if } k=1,\ldots,d-1,\\ \big(2(d-1),\infty\big) & \text{if } k=d.\end{cases}

Sign-pattern conjecture. Lemma (b) is true for every hnh_n, nNn\in\mathbb{N}; that is, for qQkq\in Q_k and 0<t<1/20<t<1/2, one has (1)k1hn(t)>0(-1)^{k-1}h_n'(t)>0.

This is proposed on the basis of computer experiments as an extension of the proved statement for h1h_1.

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Xianghong Chen and Hans Volkmer, “On transfer operators on the circle with trigonometric weights”, arXiv:1610.07658 (2016).

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