Some completely monotonic functions involving the gamma and polygamma functions

Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 273-287

  Li, Ai Jun ^a   Chen, Chao Ping ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Completely monotonic; Laplace transforms; Logarithmically completely monotonie; Strongly completely monotonic

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349003155     PISSN: 03049914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4134/JKMS.2008.45.1.273     Document Type: Article

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