Bóna's log-concavity conjecture for parking-function polynomials
Bóna's log-concavity conjecture for parking-function polynomials
Let be the set of parking functions of length , and define the sum statistic by for . Define the parking-function polynomial
A sequence of real numbers is log-concave if each interior term squared is at least the product of its two neighboring terms; a polynomial is log-concave when its coefficient sequence is log-concave. Bóna's conjecture. The polynomial is log-concave for all . This conjecture is recorded as resolved in the supplied status information; log-concavity is stronger than unimodality and belongs to the broader study of log-concavity phenomena for combinatorial and matroid-related invariants.
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Primary source
Joseph Pappe, “A note on the log-concavity of parking functions”, arXiv:2412.19783 (2024).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1903.09138.
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