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Positivity of a rational function

A rational function is called positive if all its Taylor coefficients are positive. Friedrichs-Lewy conjecture states the positivity of the rational function \begin{eqnarray*}\frac{1}{ (1-x)(1- y)+(1- y)(1-z)+(1-z)(1-x)} = \sum\limits_{ k,m,n\ge0} a_{k,m, n }x^k y^mz^n. \end{eqnarray*} The conjecture was first proved by G. Szego. By intuition, I guess the following statement is also true.

Let $P_n=\prod\limits_{i=1}^n(1-x_i)$, then the following rational function is positive \begin{eqnarray*}\frac{1}{ \sum\limits_{i=1}^n\frac{P_n}{1-x_i}}=\sum\limits_{i_1,i_2\cdots, i_n\ge 0}a_{i_1,i_2\cdots, i_n }x_1^{i_1}x_2^{i_2}\cdots x_n^{i_n}. \end{eqnarray*}

A reference http://129.81.170.14/~tamdeberhan/positivity.pdf

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