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On Some Properties of the Trigamma Function

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2023-04-25 v1

Abstract

In 1974, Gautschi proved an intriguing inequality involving the gamma function Γ\Gamma. Precisely, he proved that, for z>0z>0, the harmonic mean of Γ(z)\Gamma(z) and Γ(1/z)\Gamma(1/z) can never be less than 1. In 2017, Alzer and Jameson extended this result to the digamma function ψ\psi by proving that, for z>0z>0, the harmonic mean of ψ(z)\psi(z) and ψ(1/z)\psi(1/z) can never be less than γ-\gamma where γ\gamma is the Euler-Mascheroni constant. In this paper, our goal is to extend the results to the trigamma function ψ\psi'. We prove among other things that, for z>0z>0, the harmonic mean of ψ(z)\psi'(z) and ψ(1/z)\psi'(1/z) can never be greater than π2/6\pi^2/6.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2304.12081,
  title  = {On Some Properties of the Trigamma Function},
  author = {Kwara Nantomah and Gregory Abe-I-Kpeng and Sunday Sandow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12081},
  year   = {2023}
}
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