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The complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials of degree $\ell$ in $n$ variables are defined by \begin{equation*} h_{\ell}(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n) = \sum_{1 \leq i_1 \leq i_2 \leq \ldots \leq i_{\ell} \...

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. $x_i^2 \le x_{i-1}x_{i+1}$). ...

The general question For $1\leq k\leq n$, let $$e_k(a_1,\dots,a_n):=\sum_{j_1<\dots<j_k}a_{j_1}\cdots a_{j_k}$$ be the $k$-th elementary symmetric polynomial. Let $a_1,\dots,a_n<1$ and $e_1(...

It is straightforward to show (see Characterizing intersection of zero sets of elementary symmetric polynomials on R^n) that the set of points $\Lambda_{k}$ in $x \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ with $\sigma_{k}(...

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