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Oct
30
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Complexity of Log-concave Inequalities in Matroids
Swee Hong Chan
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A sequence of nonnegative real numbers $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$, is log-concave if $a_i^2 \geq a_{i-1}a_{i+1}$ for all $i$ ranging from 2 to $n-1$. Examples of log-concave inequalities range from inequalities that are readily provable, such as the...