On some properties of digamma and polygamma functions

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 328, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 452-465

  Batir, Necdet ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complete monotonicity; Digamma function; Gautschi inequality; Inverse polygamma functions; Polygamma functions; Riemann zeta function and gamma function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845912146     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.05.065     Document Type: Article

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