Positive Bernstein expansion conjecture for Bernoulli polynomial densities

For each positive integer nn, let bn(u)b_n(u) denote the factorially normalized Bernoulli polynomial of degree nn, and consider the polynomial probability density 12nbn(u)1-2^n b_n(u) on [0,1)[0,1). A Bernstein basis of degree nn consists of the polynomials (nk)uk(1u)nk\binom{n}{k}u^k(1-u)^{n-k} for 0kn0\leq k\leq n. Positive Bernstein expansion conjecture. For every positive integer nn, the density 12nbn(u)1-2^n b_n(u) can be expanded in this Bernstein basis with positive coefficients. The conjecture concerns positivity of the Bernstein coefficients at degree nn, complementing the known positive-coefficient expansion in degree 2n12n-1 described earlier in the paper.

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Yassine El Maazouz and Jim Pitman, “The Bernoulli clock: probabilistic and combinatorial interpretations of the Bernoulli polynomials by circular convolution”, arXiv:2210.02027 (2024).

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