Necessary and sufficient conditions for two classes of functions to be logarithmically completely monotonic

Integral Transforms and Special Functions

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 819-826

  Guo, Senlin ^a   Qi, Feng ^b   Srivastava, H M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Completely monotonic function; Digamma and Polygamma functions; Gamma function; Hurwitz zeta function; Inequalities; Logarithmically completely monotonic function; Necessary and sufficient condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648949504     PISSN: 10652469     EISSN: 14768291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10652460701528933     Document Type: Article

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