Some completely monotonic functions involving polygamma functions and an application

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 310, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 303-308

  Qi, Feng ^a   Cui, Run Qing ^a   Chen, Chao Ping ^a   Guo, Bai Ni ^a  

^a HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Completely monotonic function; Gamma function; Harmonic number; Harmonic sequence; Polygamma function; Psi function

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844476075     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.02.016     Document Type: Article

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