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Uniqueness of nontrivially complete monotonicity for a class of functions involving polygamma functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2010-11-24 v2

Abstract

For m,nNm,n\in\mathbb{N}, let fm,n(x)=[ψ(m)(x)]2+ψ(n)(x)f_{m,n}(x)=\bigr[\psi^{(m)}(x)\bigl]^2+\psi^{(n)}(x) on (0,)(0,\infty). In the present paper, we prove using two methods that, among all fm,n(x)f_{m,n}(x) for m,nNm,n\in\mathbb{N}, only f1,2(x)f_{1,2}(x) is nontrivially completely monotonic on (0,)(0,\infty). Accurately, the functions f1,2(x)f_{1,2}(x) and fm,2n1(x)f_{m,2n-1}(x) are completely monotonic on (0,)(0,\infty), but the functions fm,2n(x)f_{m,2n}(x) for (m,n)(1,1)(m,n)\ne(1,1) are not monotonic and does not keep the same sign on (0,)(0,\infty).

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@article{arxiv.0904.1104,
  title  = {Uniqueness of nontrivially complete monotonicity for a class of functions involving polygamma functions},
  author = {Feng Qi and Bai-Ni Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1104},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages