Complete monotonicity of the logarithmic mean

Mathematical Inequalities and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 799-804

  Qi, Feng ^a,b   Chen, Shou Xin ^a  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Completely monotonic function; Extended mean values; Logarithmic mean; Logarithmically completely monotonic function; Stolarsky's mean values

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648997561     PISSN: 13314343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7153/mia-10-73     Document Type: Article

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