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Complete monotonicity of some functions involving polygamma functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2010-07-12 v1

Abstract

In the present paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the functions xαψ(i)(x+β)x^\alpha\bigl\lvert\psi^{(i)}(x+\beta)\bigr\lvert and αψ(i)(x+β)xψ(i+1)(x+β)\alpha\bigl\lvert\psi^{(i)}(x+\beta)\bigr\lvert-x\bigl\lvert\psi^{(i+1)}(x+\beta)\bigr\lvert respectively to be monotonic and completely monotonic on (0,)(0,\infty), where iNi\in\mathbb{N}, α>0\alpha>0 and β0\beta\ge0 are scalars, and ψ(i)(x)\psi^{(i)}(x) are polygamma functions.

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@article{arxiv.0905.2732,
  title  = {Complete monotonicity of some functions involving polygamma functions},
  author = {Feng Qi and Senlin Guo and Bai-Ni Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2732},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages

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