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Integral and series representations of the digamma and polygamma functions

Mathematical Physics 2010-08-25 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We obtain a variety of series and integral representations of the digamma function ψ(a)\psi(a). These in turn provide representations of the evaluations ψ(p/q)\psi(p/q) at rational argument and for the polygamma function ψ(j)\psi^{(j)}. The approach is through a limit definition of the zeroth Stieltjes constant γ0(a)=ψ(a)\gamma_0(a)=-\psi(a). Several other results are obtained, including product representations for exp[γ0(a)]\exp[\gamma_0(a)] and for the Gamma function Γ(a)\Gamma(a). In addition, we present series representations in terms of trigonometric integrals Ci and Si for ψ(a)\psi(a) and the Euler constant γ=ψ(1)\gamma=-\psi(1).

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@article{arxiv.1008.0040,
  title  = {Integral and series representations of the digamma and polygamma functions},
  author = {Mark W. Coffey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.0040},
  year   = {2010}
}

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