Log-concavity conjecture for Clar covering polynomials

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Let HH be a hexagonal system, and let its Clar covering polynomial be

χ(H,x)=∑k=0C(H)c(H,k)xk,\chi(H,x)=\sum_{k=0}^{C(H)}c(H,k)x^k,

where c(H,k)c(H,k) is the number of Clar covers of HH having precisely kk hexagons. Log-concavity conjecture for Clar covering polynomials. The Clar covering polynomial of a hexagonal system has log-concave coefficients. Numerical results motivate this conjecture, which is presented as open in the source.

References

Primary source

Guanru Li, Lily Li Liu and Yi Wang, “Analytic properties of sextet polynomials of hexagonal systems”, arXiv:1912.03680 (2019).

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