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Inequality for symmetric polynomial functions of log concave variables

Let $(x_i)_{i \ge 1}$ be a log-concave (resp. log-convex) sequence of non-negative real variables. In other words, for $i \ge 2$, we have $x_i^2 \ge x_{i-1}x_{i+1}$ (resp. $x_i^2 \le x_{i-1}x_{i+1}$). ...
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Symmetric polynomial inequality arising from the fixed-point measure of a random permutation

A somewhat strange elementary polynomial inequality came up recently in my work, and I wonder if anyone has seen other things that are reminiscent of what follows. Given $n$ non-negative reals $a_1, ...
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