Boros and Moll's infinite log-concavity conjecture for Boros-Moll sequences

Let d(m)d_\ell(m) denote the coefficient of xx^\ell in the Boros-Moll polynomial Pm(x)P_m(x), for 0m0\leq \ell\leq m. A sequence is kk-log-concave when its first kk iterates under the operator L\mathcal{L} are nonnegative, where L({ai}i0)={ai2ai1ai+1}i0\mathcal{L}(\{a_i\}_{i\geq 0})=\{a_i^2-a_{i-1}a_{i+1}\}_{i\geq 0} and a1=0a_{-1}=0; it is \infty-log-concave when this holds for every k1k\geq 1. Boros and Moll's conjecture. The Boros-Moll sequence {d(m)}=0m\{d_\ell(m)\}_{\ell=0}^m is \infty-log-concave. This conjecture remains open, despite the known log-concavity of these sequences.

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Primary source

James J. Y. Zhao, “The extended reverse ultra log-concavity of transposed Boros-Moll sequences”, arXiv:2406.13790 (2024).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1010.0416.

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