A class of logarithmically completely monotonic functions associated with the gamma function

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-132

  Guo, Senlin ^a   Qi, Feng ^b  

^a ZHONGYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Completely monotonic function; Gamma function; Logarithmically completely monotonic function; Necessary condition; Sufficient and necessary condition; Sufficient condition

Indexed keywords

THEOREM PROVING; TRAJECTORIES;

COMPLETELY MONOTONIC FUNCTION; GAMMA FUNCTION; LOGARITHMICALLY COMPLETELY MONOTONIC FUNCTION; NECESSARY CONDITION; SUFFICIENT AND NECESSARY CONDITION; SUFFICIENT CONDITION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 56449131149     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2008.04.028     Document Type: Article

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