Concavity conjecture for the ground state of the one-dimensional symmetric stable process

Let I=(1,1)I=(-1,1), and let φ1α\varphi_1^\alpha be the ground state eigenfunction for the symmetric stable process of index 0<α<20<\alpha<2 killed upon leaving II. Concavity conjecture. The function φ1α\varphi_1^\alpha is concave on II. The only known case is α=1\alpha=1, where concavity was proved for the Cauchy process; the conjecture proposes this property for all symmetric stable processes in the interval.

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Rodrigo Banuelos, Tadeusz Kulczycki and Pedro J. Mendez-Hernandez, “On the shape of the ground state eigenfunction for stable processes”, arXiv:math/0407260 (2004).

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