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most citedProofs of some conjectures on monotonicity of number-theoretic and combinatorial sequences

17 citations · 35 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

math.CO2023

Total positivity from a kind of lattice paths

Yu-Jie Cui, Bao-Xuan Zhu

Total positivity of matrices is deeply studied and plays an important role in various branches of mathematics. The main purpose of this paper is to study total positivity of a matr…

math.CO2022★ 2 cited

Coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity of the row-generating polynomials for the output matrices of certain production matrices

Bao-Xuan Zhu

Total positivity of matrices is deeply studied and plays an important role in various branches of mathematics. The aim of this paper is to study the criteria for coefficientwise Ha…

math.CO2021

Stability of combinatorial polynomials and its applications

Ming-Jian Ding, Bao-Xuan Zhu

The aim of this paper is to make a systematical study on the stability of polynomials in combinatorics. Applying the characterizations of Borcea and Brändén concerning linear opera…

math.CO2020

On a Stirling-Whitney-Riordan triangle

Bao-Xuan Zhu

Based on the Stirling triangle of the second kind, the Whitney triangle of the second kind and one triangle of Riordan, we study a Stirling-Whitney-Riordan triangle $[T_{n,k}]_{n,k…

math.CO2020★ 2 cited

A unified approach to combinatorial triangles: a generalized Eulerian polynomial

Bao-Xuan Zhu

Motivated by the classical Eulerian number, descent and excedance numbers in the hyperoctahedral groups, an triangular array from staircase tableaux and so on, we study a triangula…

math.CO2020

Stieltjes moment properties and continued fractions from combinatorial triangles

Bao-Xuan Zhu

Many combinatorial numbers can be placed in the following generalized triangular array satisfying the recurrence relation: \begin{equation*} T_{n,k}=λ(a_0n+a…

math.CO2020

Total positivity from the exponential Riordan arrays

Bao-Xuan Zhu

Log-concavity and almost log-convexity of the cycle index polynomials were proved by Bender and Canfield [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 74 (1996)]. Schirmacher [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A…

math.CO2018

Positivity of iterated sequences of polynomials

Bao-Xuan Zhu

In this paper, we present some criteria for the --log-convexity and --log-convexity of combinatorial sequences, which can be regarded as the first column of certain inf…

math.CO2018★ 5 cited

Lattice paths and branched continued fractions: An infinite sequence of generalizations of the Stieltjes--Rogers and Thron--Rogers polynomials, with coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity

Mathias Pétréolle, Alan D. Sokal, Bao-Xuan Zhu

We define an infinite sequence of generalizations, parametrized by an integer , of the Stieltjes--Rogers and Thron--Rogers polynomials; they arise as the power-series expa…

math.CO2017

Asymptotic normality of Laplacian coefficients of graphs

Yi Wang, Haixia Zhang, Baoxuan Zhu

Let be a simple graph with vertices and let denote the Laplacian characteristic polynomial of . Then if the size is l…

math.CO2016

Log-convex and Stieltjes moment sequences

Yi Wang, Bao-Xuan Zhu

We show that Stieltjes moment sequences are infinitely log-convex, which parallels a famous result that (finite) Pólya frequency sequences are infinitely log-concave. We introduce…

math.CO2016★ 3 cited

Context-free grammars for several polynomials associated with Eulerian polynomials

Shi-Mei Ma, Jun Ma, Yeong-Nan Yeh +1

In this paper, we present grammatical descriptions of several polynomials associated with Eulerian polynomials, including q-Eulerian polynomials, alternating run polynomials and de…

math.CO2016

Hankel-type determinants for some combinatorial sequences

Bao-Xuan Zhu, Zhi-Wei Sun

In this paper we confirm several conjectures of Z.-W. Sun on Hankel-type determinants for some combinatorial sequences including Franel numbers, Domb numbers and Apéry numbers. For…

math.CO2016

Linear transformations and strong -log-concavity for certain combinatorial triangle

Bao-Xuan Zhu

It is well-known that the binomial transformation preserves the log-concavity property and log-convexity property. Let be the binomial coefficients and $\binom{n…

math.CO2015

Unimodality of the independence polynomials of some composite graphs

Bao-Xuan Zhu, Qinglin Lu

Let denote the independence polynomial of a graph . In this paper we study the unimodality properties of for some composite graphs . Given two graphs …

math.CO2014★ 1 cited

Strong q-log-convexity of the Eulerian polynomials of Coxeter groups

Lily Li Liu, Bao-Xuan Zhu

In this paper we prove the strong -log-convexity of the Eulerian polynomials of Coxeter groups using their exponential generating functions. Our proof is based on the theory of…

math.CO2013★ 2 cited

Operations of graphs and unimodality of independence polynomials

Bao-Xuan Zhu

Given two graphs and , assume that is a clique cover of and is a subset of . We introduce a new graph operation called th…

math.CO2013★ 3 cited

Higher order log-monotonicity of combinatorial sequences

Bao-Xuan Zhu

A sequence is called ratio log-convex in the sense that the ratio sequence is log-convex. Based on a three-term recurrence for…

math.CO2013

Monotonicity and log-behavior of some functions related to the Euler Gamma function

Bao-Xuan Zhu

The aim of this paper is to develop analytic techniques to deal with certain monotonicity of combinatorial sequences. (1) A criterion for the monotonicity of the function $\sqrt[x]…

math.CO2013★ 17 cited

Proofs of some conjectures on monotonicity of number-theoretic and combinatorial sequences

Yi Wang, Bao-Xuan Zhu

We develop techniques to deal with monotonicity of sequences z_{n+1}/z_n and \sqrt[n]{z_n}. A series of conjectures of Zhi-Wei Sun and of Amdeberhan et al. are verified in certain…