Sun's log-concavity conjecture on the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence

Abstract

Let $\{P_n{\}}_{n\ge 0}$ denote the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence, which naturally came up from the series expansion of the complete elliptic integral of the first kind. In this paper, we prove the strict log-concavity of the sequence $\{\sqrt[n]{P_n}{\}}_{n\ge 1}$, which was originally conjectured by Sun. We also obtain the strict log-concavity of the sequence $\{\sqrt[n]{V_n}{\}}_{n\ge 1}$, where $\{V_n{\}}_{n\ge 0}$ is the Fennessey-Larcombe-French sequence arising in the series expansion of the complete elliptic integral of the second kind.

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