Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4655753 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 2011 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

We introduce the antipodal pairs property for probability measures on finite Boolean algebras and prove that conditional versions imply strong forms of log-concavity. We give several applications of this fact, including improvements of some results of Wagner, a new proof of a theorem of Liggett stating that ultra-log-concavity of sequences is preserved by convolutions, and some progress on a well-known log-concavity conjecture of J. Mason.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics