FOUR LOGARITHMICALLY COMPLETELY MONOTONIC FUNCTIONS INVOLVING GAMMA FUNCTION

Title & Authors
FOUR LOGARITHMICALLY COMPLETELY MONOTONIC FUNCTIONS INVOLVING GAMMA FUNCTION
Qi, Feng; Niu, Da-Wei; Cao, Jian; Chen, Shou-Xin;

Abstract
In this paper, two classes of functions, involving a parameter and the classical Euler gamma function, and two functions, involving the classical Euler gamma function, are verified to be logarithmically completely monotonic in $\small{(-\frac{1}{2},\infty)}$ or $\small{(0,\infty)}$; some inequalities involving the classical Euler gamma function are deduced and compared with those originating from certain problems of traffic flow, due to J. Wendel and A. Laforgia, and relating to the well known Stirling's formula.
Keywords
logarithmically completely montonic function;completely monotonic function;ratio of the gamma functions;Kershaw's inequality;Laforgia's inequality;Stirling's formula;Wendel's inequality;
Language
English
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