Preservation of log-concavity under Hadamard products

Source abstract

For a nonzero real polynomial $p$, let $\W(p)$ denote the numerator of its ordinary generating function. We prove that if the coefficients of both $\W(p)$ and $\W(q)$ are nonnegative and log-concave with no internal zeros, then so are the coefficients of $\W(pq)$. This provides an affirmative answer to a question of Brändén, Ferroni, and Jochemko. As applications, we derive corresponding results for finite products and for Cartesian products of lattice polytopes, answering a question of Ferroni and Higashitani.