Complete monotonicity of some functions involving polygamma functions

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 233, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2149-2160

  Qi, Feng ^a   Guo, Senlin ^b   Guo, Bai Ni ^a  

^a TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHONGYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bernoulli numbers; Completely monotonic function; Infinite series; Monotonicity; Polygamma function

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI NUMBERS; COMPLETELY MONOTONIC FUNCTION; INFINITE SERIES; MONOTONICITY; POLYGAMMA FUNCTION;

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS);

EID: 73249119072     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2009.09.044     Document Type: Article

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