Real-rooted atlas

A008278 → x ↦ x+1 (shift +1) → reverse → x ↦ x/(x+1)

nonnegative coefficients

Proved for all n all roots real, in [−1, 0]coefficients of one signHadamard kernel

Recurrence

\(\left(1 + 3\,x + 3\,x^{2} + x^{3}\right)\,P_{n}(x) = \left(1 + 8\,x + 22\,x^{2} + 28\,x^{3} + 17\,x^{4} + 4\,x^{5} - 2\,n x - 10\,n x^{2} - 18\,n x^{3} - 14\,n x^{4} - 4\,n x^{5}\right)\,P_{n-1}(x) + \left(x + 7\,x^{2} + 19\,x^{3} + 25\,x^{4} + 16\,x^{5} + 4\,x^{6}\right)\,P_{n-1}'(x)\)
\(P_{0}(x) = 1\)

Rows ?

nx0x1x2x3x4x5x6x7Pn(1)
011
1134
2171119
31134649109
4123139322257742
51413781429242715395815
6175991543814744196451029951193
711412574192617417815582217023675905498118

All 15 rows

Technical details
Node id
n-706cb886af9eb90e · revision 0 · JSON
Definition source
derived:mobius_x_over_x_plus_one
Fingerprint
f6-75d63132b26da3ac

Observed on the stored rows ?

  • Degrees: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (affine: slope 1, intercept 0)
  • Palindromic rows: no
  • γ-positive (gamma_positive): no
  • Nonnegative coefficients (nonn): yes
  • Only rational roots (rr_by_factors: every nonzero row is a product of linear factors over ℚ): no

Matches ?

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Submission text ?

Atlas rows n = 0, …, ascending powers of x
%e Example
Triangle begins:
  0: 1;
  1: 1,   3;
  2: 1,   7,    11;
  3: 1,  13,    46,     49;
  4: 1,  23,   139,    322,     257;
  5: 1,  41,   378,   1429,    2427,    1539;
  6: 1,  75,   991,   5438,   14744,   19645,    10299;
  7: 1, 141,  2574,  19261,   74178,  155822,   170236,    75905;
  8: 1, 271,  6707,  65938,  338671,  997646,  1703914,  1573732,   609441;
  9: 1, 529, 17650, 222629, 1466449, 5683129, 13492184, 19361158, 15459637, 5284451;
%F Formula
The row polynomials satisfy (1+3*x+3*x^2+x^3)*P(n,x) = (1-(2*n-8)*x-(10*n-22)*x^2-(18*n-28)*x^3-(14*n-17)*x^4-(4*n-4)*x^5)*P(n-1,x) + (x+7*x^2+19*x^3+25*x^4+16*x^5+4*x^6)*d/dx P(n-1,x) for n >= 1, with P(0,x) = 1.
%t Mathematica
P[0, x_] := 1;
P[n_, x_] := P[n, x] = Expand[Together[((1 - (2*n - 8)*x - (10*n - 22)*x^2 - (18*n - 28)*x^3 - (14*n - 17)*x^4 - (4*n - 4)*x^5)*P[n - 1, x] + (x + 7*x^2 + 19*x^3 + 25*x^4 + 16*x^5 + 4*x^6)*D[P[n - 1, x], x])/(1 + 3*x + 3*x^2 + x^3)]];
Table[CoefficientList[P[n, x], x], {n, 0, 9}] // Flatten
%o PARI/GP
P(N) = {my(v = vector(N + 1)); v[1] = 1; for(n = 1, N, my(i = n + 1); v[i] = ((1 - (2*n - 8)*x - (10*n - 22)*x^2 - (18*n - 28)*x^3 - (14*n - 17)*x^4 - (4*n - 4)*x^5)*v[i - 1] + (x + 7*x^2 + 19*x^3 + 25*x^4 + 16*x^5 + 4*x^6)*deriv(v[i - 1], x))/(1 + 3*x + 3*x^2 + x^3)); v};
row(n, p) = {my(c = Vecrev(p)); c};
T(N) = {my(v = P(N)); concat(vector(#v, i, row(i - 1, v[i])))};
T(9)

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References

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