Some logarithmically completely monotonic functions related to the gamma function

Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1283-1297

  Qi, Feng ^a   Guo, Bai Ni ^a  

^a HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basic property; Completely monotonic function; Gamma function; Logarithmically completely monotonic function

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749270240     PISSN: 03049914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4134/JKMS.2010.47.6.1283     Document Type: Article

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