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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/BKMS.2015.52.3.987

AN INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION, SOME INEQUALITIES, AND COMPLETE MONOTONICITY OF THE BERNOULLI NUMBERS OF THE SECOND KIND  

Qi, Feng (School of Mathematics and Informatics Henan Polytechnic University, College of Mathematics Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Department of Mathematics School of Science Tianjin Polytechnic University)
Zhang, Xiao-Jing (The 59th Middle School Jianxi District, Department of Mathematics School of Science Tianjin Polytechnic University)
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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.52, no.3, 2015 , pp. 987-998 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the paper, the authors discover an integral representation, some inequalities, and complete monotonicity of the Bernoulli numbers of the second kind.
Keywords
Bernoulli numbers of the second kind; integral representation; inequality; completely monotonic sequence; Cauchy integral formula;
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