Monotonicity properties of determinants of special functions

Constructive Approximation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Ismail, Mourad E H ^a   Laforgia, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absolute monotonicity; Complete monotonicity; Confluent hypergeometric function; Fibonacci numbers; Hermite polynomials; Hypergeometric function; Modified Bessel functions; Polygamma functions; Spherical functions; Tricomi function

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147121583     PISSN: 01764276     EISSN: 14320940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00365-005-0627-4     Document Type: Article

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