Turán inequality conjecture for the plane-partition polynomials

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Let Pn(x)P_n(x) denote the polynomials associated with the generalized plane partitions, and let aa be an integer with a≥12a\geq 12. Turán inequality conjecture. For every real number x≥1x\geq 1,

Pa(x)2>Pa−1(x) Pa+1(x).P_a(x)^2>P_{a-1}(x)\,P_{a+1}(x).

This is the polynomial analogue of log-concavity for plane partition numbers and is named a Turán inequality in the source. Numerical zero-distribution evidence verifies the inequality for 12≤a≤10012\leq a\leq 100, while the general assertion remains open.

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Bernhard Heim, Markus Neuhauser and Robert Tröger, “Inequalities for Plane Partitions”, arXiv:2109.15145 (2021).

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