Many important problems are closely related to the zeros of certain polynomials derived from combinatorial objects. The aim of this paper is to observe some results and applications for the Hurwitz stability of polynomials in combinatorics and study other related problems. We first present a criterion for the Hurwitz stability of the Turan expressions of recursive polynomials. In particular, it implies the q-log-convexity or q-log-concavity of the original polynomials. We also give a criterion for the Hurwitz stability of recursive polynomials and prove that the Hurwitz stability of any palindromic polynomial implies its semi-gamma-positivity, which illustrates that the original polynomial with odd degree is unimodal. In particular, we get that the semi-gamma-positivity of polynomials implies their parity-unimodality and the Hurwitz stability of polynomials implies their parity-log-concavity. Those results generalize the connections between real-rootedness, gamma-positivity, log-concavity and unimodality to Hurwitz stability, semi-gamma-positivity, parity-log-concavity and parity-unimodality (unimodality). As applications of these criteria, we derive some Hurwitz stability results occurred in the literature in a unified manner. In addition, we obtain the Hurwitz stability of Turan expressions for alternating run polynomials of types Aand Band the Hurwitz stability for alternating run polynomials defined on a dual set of Stirling permutations. Finally, we study a class of recursive palindromic polynomials and derive many nice properties including Hurwitz stability, semi-gamma-positivity, non-gamma-positivity, unimodality, strong q-log-convexity, the Jacobi continued fraction expansion and the relation with derivative polynomials. In particular, these properties of the alternating descents polynomials of types Aand Bcan be implied in a unified approach. (c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
