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On the Log-Concavity of the Root of the Catalan-Larcombe-French Numbers

Received: 29 October 2016     Accepted: 31 March 2017     Published: 17 April 2017
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Abstract

Recently, some combinatorial properties for the the Catalan-Larcombe-French numbers have been proved by Sun and Wu, and Zhao. Recently, Z. W. Sun conjectured that the root of the Catalan-Larcombe-French numbers is log-concave. In this paper, we confirm Sun's conjecture by establishing the lower and upper bound for the ratios of the Catalan-Larcombe-French numbers.

Published in American Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajmcm.20170204.11
Page(s) 95-98
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Keywords

The Catalan-Larcombe-French Number, Log-Concavity, Recurrence Relation

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