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IJMMS 2003:16, 1003–1025 PII. S0161171203205056 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS AND POSITIVITY OF COEFFICIENTS FOR LARGE POWERS OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS VALERIO DE ANGELIS Received 6 May 2002 We derive an asymptotic expansion as n → ∞ for a large range of coefficients n of (f (z)) , where f (z) is a power series satisfying |f (z) | f (|z |) for z ∈ C, z ∉ R+. When f is a polynomial and the two smallest and the two largest exponents appearing in f are consecutive integers, we use the expansion to generalize results of Odlyzko and Richmond (1985) on log concavity of polynomials, and we prove that a power of f has only positive coefficients. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 41A60, 26C99. 1. Introduction. Suppose that f (z) = ∞ c zk is a power series with ra- k=0 k ˆ dius of convergence R ∈ (0, ∞]. Given any positive r R , define f : R → C by ˆ 1 π iθ −ikθ f (k) = 2πr k −π f r e e dθ. (1.1) Then, if k ∈ Z+, we have ˆ 1 f (z) dz = c , (1.2) f (k) = 2πi |z |=r zk+1 k independently of the choice of r . Replacing f by f n , we obtain an integral depending on the two variables n and k, namely, n 1 π n iθ −ikθ f (k) = 2πr k −π f r e e dθ. (1.3) Under suitable conditions on f , the integral representation (1.3), combined with the freedom of choice in the radius of the circle