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ON COMPLETE MONOTONICITY OF LINEAR COMBINATION OF FINITE PSI FUNCTIONS  

Guo, Bai-Ni (School of Mathematics and Informatics Henan Polytechnic University)
Qi, Feng (School of Mathematical Sciences Tianjin Polytechnic University)
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Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.34, no.4, 2019 , pp. 1223-1228 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the paper, the authors supply complete monotonicity of linear combination of finite psi functions and extend some known results.
Keywords
complete monotonicity; psi function; linear combination; alternative proof;
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