# Higher Order Log-Concavity in Euler's Difference Table

**Authors:** William Y.C. Chen, Cindy C.Y. Gu, Kevin J. Ma, Larry X.W. Wang

arXiv: 0911.2775 · 2009-11-17

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the higher order log-concavity properties of a permutation-related array derived from Euler's difference table, revealing new concavity characteristics in combinatorial sequences.

## Contribution

It establishes that the array formed by scaled entries of Euler's difference table exhibits 2-log-concavity and reverse ultra log-concavity for all n, a novel insight into their combinatorial structure.

## Key findings

- The sequence is 2-log-concave for all n.
- The sequence is reverse ultra log-concave for all n.
- Provides new combinatorial properties of Euler's difference table entries.

## Abstract

Let $e_{n}^k$ be the entries in the classical Euler's difference table. We consider the array $d_{n}^{k}=e_n^k/k!$ for $0\leq k \leq n$, where $d_n^k$ can be interpreted as the number of k-fixed-points-permutations of [n]. We show that the sequence $\{d_n^k\}_{0\leq k\leq n}$ is 2-log-concave and reverse ultra log-concave for any given n.

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