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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 m,nNm,n\in \mathbb{N}, let 0<αi,βj,λij10 < \alpha_i,\beta_j,\lambda_{ij} \leq 1 be such that j=1nλij=αi\sum_{j=1}^n \lambda_{ij} = \alpha_i, i=1mλij=βj\sum_{i=1}^m \lambda_{ij} = \beta_j, and i=1mαi=j=1nβj1\sum_{i=1}^m \alpha_i = \sum_{j=1}^n \beta_j \leq 1. 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 (0,)(0,\infty). 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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