A remarkable sequence of integers

Expositiones Mathematicae

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 289-312

  Moll, Victor H ^a   Manna, Dante V ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrals; Log concavity; Rational functions; Unimodality; Valuations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349525157     PISSN: 07230869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exmath.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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