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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/CKMS.c180450

INEQUALITIES AND COMPLETE MONOTONICITY FOR THE GAMMA AND RELATED FUNCTIONS  

Chen, Chao-Ping (School of Mathematics and Informatics Henan Polytechnic University)
Choi, Junesang (Department of Mathematics Dongguk University)
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Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.34, no.4, 2019 , pp. 1261-1278 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is well-known that if ${\phi}^{{\prime}{\prime}}$ > 0 for all x, ${\phi}(0)=0$, and ${\phi}/x$ is interpreted as ${\phi}^{\prime}(0)$ for x = 0, then ${\phi}/x$ increases for all x. This has been extended in [Complete monotonicity and logarithmically complete monotonicity properties for the gamma and psi functions, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 336 (2007), 812-822]. In this paper, we extend the above result to the very general cases, and then use it to prove some (logarithmically) completely monotonic functions related to the gamma function. We also establish some inequalities for the gamma function and generalize some known results.
Keywords
gamma function; psi (or digamma) function; polygamma functions; completely monotonic function; logarithmically completely monotonic function; absolutely monotonic function; Bernstein function;
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