Four logarithmically completely monotonic functions involving gamma function

Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 559-573

  Qi, Feng ^a,b   Niu, Da Wei ^c   Cao, Jian ^d   Chen, Shou Xin ^a  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHONGYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Completely monotonic function; Kershaw's inequality; Laforgia's inequality; Logarithmically completely monotonic function; Ratio of the gamma functions; Stirling's formula; Wendel's inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949142017     PISSN: 03049914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4134/JKMS.2008.45.2.559     Document Type: Article

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