Complete monotonicity of a ratio of gamma functions and some combinatorial inequalities for multinomial coefficients
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2019-11-07 v2
Abstract
For , let be such that , , and . We prove that the ratio of gamma functions \begin{equation*} \hspace{-15mm}t \mapsto \frac{\prod_{i=1}^m \Gamma(\alpha_i t + 1) \prod_{j=1}^n \Gamma(\beta_j t + 1)}{\prod_{i=1}^m \prod_{j=1}^n \Gamma(\lambda_{ij} t + 1)} \end{equation*} is logarithmically completely monotonic on . This result complements the logarithmically complete monotonicity of multinomial probabilities shown in Ouimet (2018), Qi et al (2018), and the recent survey of Qi & Argawal (2019) on the complete monotonicity of functions related to ratios of gamma functions. As a consequence of the log-convexity, we obtain new combinatorial inequalities for multinomial coefficients.
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@article{arxiv.1907.05262,
title = {Complete monotonicity of a ratio of gamma functions and some combinatorial inequalities for multinomial coefficients},
author = {Frédéric Ouimet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05262},
year = {2019}
}
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