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A completely monotonic function involving the gamma and tri-gamma functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-08-02 v1

Abstract

In the paper the author provides necessary and sufficient conditions on aa for the function 12ln(2π)x+(x12)lnxlnΓ(x)+112ψ(x+a)\frac{1}{2}\ln(2\pi)-x+\bigl(x-\frac{1}{2}\bigr)\ln x-\ln\Gamma(x)+\frac1{12}{\psi'(x+a)} and its negative to be completely monotonic on (0,)(0,\infty), where a0a\ge0 is a real number, Γ(x)\Gamma(x) is the classical gamma function, and ψ(x)=Γ(x)Γ(x)\psi(x)=\frac{\Gamma'(x)}{\Gamma(x)} is the di-gamma function. As applications, some known results and new inequalities are derived.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5407,
  title  = {A completely monotonic function involving the gamma and tri-gamma functions},
  author = {Feng Qi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5407},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages

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