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Monotonicity and log-behavior of some functions related to the Euler Gamma function

Combinatorics 2015-04-29 v3

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop analytic techniques to deal with certain monotonicity of combinatorial sequences. (1) A criterion for the monotonicity of the function f(x)x\sqrt[x]{f(x)} is given, which is a continuous analog for one result of Wang and Zhu. (2) The log-behavior of the functions θ(x)=2ζ(x)Γ(x+1)x\theta(x)=\sqrt[x]{2 \zeta(x)\Gamma(x+1)} and F(x)=Γ(ax+b+1)Γ(cx+d+1)Γ(ex+f+1)xF(x)=\sqrt[x]{\frac{\Gamma(ax+b+1)}{\Gamma(c x+d+1)\Gamma(e x+f+1)}} is considered, where ζ(x)\zeta(x) and Γ(x)\Gamma(x) are the Riemann zeta function and the Euler Gamma function, respectively. As consequences, the strict log-concavities of the function θ(x)\theta(x) (a conjecture of Chen {\it et al.}) and {znn}\{\sqrt[n]{z_n}\} for some combinatorial sequences (including the Bernoulli numbers, the Tangent numbers, the Catalan numbers, the Fuss-Catalan numbers and some Binomial coefficients) are demonstrated. In particular, this contains some results of Chen {\it et al.}, Luca and St\u{a}nic\u{a}. (3). By researching logarithmically complete monotonicity of some functions, the infinite log-monotonicity of the sequence {(n0+ia)!(k0+ib)!(k0+ib)!}i0\{\frac{(n_{0}+ia)!}{(k_0+ib)!(\overline{k_0}+i\overline{b})!}\}_{i\geq0} is proved. This generalizes two results of Chen {\it et al.} that both the Catalan numbers 1n+1(2nn)\frac{1}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n} and central binomial coefficients (2nn)\binom{2n}{n} are infinitely log-monotonic and strengths one result of Su and Wang that (dnδn)\binom{dn}{\delta n} is log-convex in nn. (4) The asymptotically infinite log-monotonicity of derangement numbers is showed. (5)The logarithmically complete monotonicity of functions 1/aζ(x+b)Γ(x+c)x1/\sqrt[x]{a \zeta(x+b)\Gamma(x+c)} and ρi=1nΓ(x+ai)Γ(x+bi)x\sqrt[x]{\rho\prod_{i=1}^n\frac{\Gamma(x+a_i)}{\Gamma(x+b_i)}} is also obtained, which generalizes the results of Lee and Tepedelenlio\v{g}lu, Qi and Li.

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@article{arxiv.1309.5693,
  title  = {Monotonicity and log-behavior of some functions related to the Euler Gamma function},
  author = {Bao-Xuan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5693},
  year   = {2015}
}

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to appear in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (2015)

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