Some classes of completely monotonic functions, II

Ramanujan Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-248

  Alzer, Horst ^a   Berg, Christian ^b  

^a University of Copenhagen ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Complete monotonicity; Gamma, digamma and polygamma functions; Inequalities; Prime numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744771978     PISSN: 13824090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11139-006-6510-5     Document Type: Article

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