The q-log-convexity of the Narayana polynomials of type B

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Abstract

We prove a conjecture of Liu and Wang on the q-log-convexity of the Narayana polynomials of type B. By using Pieri's rule and the Jacobi–Trudi identity for Schur functions, we obtain an expansion of a sum of products of elementary symmetric functions in terms of Schur functions with nonnegative coefficients. By the principal specialization, this leads to q-log-convexity. We also show that the linear transformation with respect to the triangular array of Narayana numbers of type B is log-convexity preserving.

MSC

05E05
05E10

Keywords

q-log-convexity
Schur positivity
Pieri's rule
The Jacobi–Trudi identity
Principal specialization
Narayana numbers of type B

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