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arxiv: 1103.0430 · v2 · pith:WUWUDOEInew · submitted 2011-03-02 · 🧮 math.OC

A Note on Extrema of Linear Combinations of Elementary Symmetric Functions

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This note provides a new approach to a result of Foregger and related earlier results by Keilson and Eberlein. Using quite different techniques, we prove a more general result from which the others follow easily. Finally, we argue that the proof given by Foregger is flawed.

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