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nonnegative coefficientsonly rational roots

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

Recurrence

\(\left(n^{2} - 2\,n^{3} + n^{4}\right)\,P_{n}(x) = \left(-n^{2} - 4\,n^{2} x - 4\,n^{2} x^{2} - 2\,n^{3} - 8\,n^{3} x - 8\,n^{3} x^{2} - n^{4} - 4\,n^{4} x - 4\,n^{4} x^{2}\right)\,P_{n-2}(x) + \left(2 + 4\,x - 4\,n^{2} - 8\,n^{2} x + 2\,n^{4} + 4\,n^{4} x\right)\,P_{n-1}(x)\)
\(P_{0}(x) = 0\)
\(P_{1}(x) = 4\)

Rows ?

nx0x1x2x3x4x5x6Pn(1)
00
144
2183654
348192192432
410060012008002700
5180144043205760288014580
62942940117602352023520940871442
7448537626880716801075208601628672326592

All 15 rows

Technical details
Node id
n-abd3b95d2350f264 · revision 0 · JSON
Definition source
derived:basis_map_A013609
Fingerprint
f6-11aec07ce60b6d61

Observed on the stored rows ?

  • Degrees: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (affine: slope 1, intercept -1)
  • 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): yes

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Submission text ?

Atlas rows n = 0, …, ascending powers of x
%e Example
Triangle begins:
  0:   0;
  1:   4;
  2:  18,    36;
  3:  48,   192,    192;
  4: 100,   600,   1200,    800;
  5: 180,  1440,   4320,   5760,    2880;
  6: 294,  2940,  11760,  23520,   23520,    9408;
  7: 448,  5376,  26880,  71680,  107520,   86016,   28672;
  8: 648,  9072,  54432, 181440,  362880,  435456,  290304,  82944;
  9: 900, 14400, 100800, 403200, 1008000, 1612800, 1612800, 921600, 230400;
%F Formula
The row polynomials satisfy (n^4-2*n^3+n^2)*P(n,x) = -(n^4+2*n^3+n^2+(4*n^4+8*n^3+4*n^2)*x+(4*n^4+8*n^3+4*n^2)*x^2)*P(n-2,x) + (2*n^4-4*n^2+2+(4*n^4-8*n^2+4)*x)*P(n-1,x) for n >= 2, with P(0,x) = 0, P(1,x) = 4.
%t Mathematica
P[0, x_] := 0;
P[1, x_] := 4;
P[n_, x_] := P[n, x] = Expand[Together[(-(n^4 + 2*n^3 + n^2 + (4*n^4 + 8*n^3 + 4*n^2)*x + (4*n^4 + 8*n^3 + 4*n^2)*x^2)*P[n - 2, x] + (2*n^4 - 4*n^2 + 2 + (4*n^4 - 8*n^2 + 4)*x)*P[n - 1, x])/(n^4 - 2*n^3 + n^2)]];
Table[CoefficientList[P[n, x], x], {n, 0, 9}] // Flatten
%o PARI/GP
P(N) = {my(v = vector(N + 1)); v[1] = 0; v[2] = 4; for(n = 2, N, my(i = n + 1); v[i] = (-(n^4 + 2*n^3 + n^2 + (4*n^4 + 8*n^3 + 4*n^2)*x + (4*n^4 + 8*n^3 + 4*n^2)*x^2)*v[i - 2] + (2*n^4 - 4*n^2 + 2 + (4*n^4 - 8*n^2 + 4)*x)*v[i - 1])/(n^4 - 2*n^3 + n^2)); 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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