Monotonicity and concavity properties of some functions involving the gamma function with applications

Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-7

  Guo, Senlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concavity; Equivalence; Gamma function; Monotonicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744466841     PISSN: 14435756     EISSN: 14435756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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